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Upon return to Phase 2 since Metropolitan region, due to the rise in covid-19 infections, the debate on the advisability of reopening the borders through the Santiago airport.
This allows, since last November 23, that Chilean and foreign people can leave and enter our country, but with some restrictions.
For example, foreigners must arrive with a negative PCR test no more than 72 hours old and report your health situation every 24 hours for 14 days. After that, they can go to the place they want, except those who come from high-risk countries, which must comply with a 14-day quarantine.
The quarantine Likewise, it is compulsory for Chileans and resident foreigners who arrive in the country, unless they have a PCR test upon arrival or they take one on national soil.
The debate on the convenience of keeping the border open at the Santiago Airport was born since, as the capital is now in phase 2, Santiago residents cannot travel to other areas of the country since interregional travel they were prohibited.
In other words, if you can leave the country and head to some other part of the world (complying with the measures that each country requires), but you cannot travel to other areas of Chile.
Daza’s phrase
Yesterday, the undersecretary Paula Daza was consulted about this difference and stressed that the borders are closed, except the Santiago Airport.
“The borders are closed, absolutely closed. The only thing that is open is the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport and in order to reach Chile, people who come from abroad have a series of sanitary conditions: the negative PCR, they have to make an affidavit and they are also under epidemiological surveillance for 14 days, “he said.
In addition, he added that since Wednesday random PCR tests to those who come to the country.
Despite this, people with COVID-19. The latest report in this regard, which covered the period from November 28 to December 4, revealed an exponential growth in imported cases in the capital.
In that period, the Metropolitan region registered 70 imported boxes notified with entry to Chile the 14 days prior to the onset of symptoms. The previous period, from November 21 to 27, the figure was 5.
The viral photo
Although the airlines have insisted that they have ventilation systems and filters that allow to avoid contagions, passengers must also carry out the usual procedures and in the usual places.
And even though the passenger levels They still do not return to what was seen before the pandemic began, there are also times when large numbers of people gather.
This was revealed in an Instagram story uploaded yesterday Thursday by the athlete Macarena reyes, Chile’s record in long jump.
In the image that went viral, the Santiago Airport is seen with a large number of passengers in the check-in area, waiting for deliver your bags.
For the moment, the border will remain open through the airport.
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