On Thursday night, the Argentine government announced that as of Saturday suspend all flights from Chile.

The information was delivered by Santiago Cafiero, chief of staff of the trans-Andean executive, who indicated that aircraft from Mexico and Brazil.

“Today we are in a situation where Argentina still has a high number of cases, but we also see that the region, neighboring countries, are with a community circulation and sustained of these new strains that are much more contagious ”, Cafiero commented to C5N.

With this, the Casa Rosada intends to “make border control more rigorous” and prevent more infections with foreign variants or new mutations from reaching its soil, specifically the so-called “from Manaus”.

For now, those who continue to arrive in Argentina will have to undergo a rapid PCR test at your cost in the airport.

If the test returns a result negative, a passenger must isolate himself for ten days in a home, where it will be under control.

If positive, the national authority will determine where the quarantine will be carried out and the patient must be performed another PCR, this time genomic, to establish with which strain it was infected.