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Contrary to popular belief and even reading, COVID-19 is not present in everyone. It is true that the numbers have exploded around the world, and some countries have reached records in terms of new cases. But that does not mean that the pandemic has affected everyone and everything.
“Far” from COVID-19 is Antarctica, which is currently the only continent without any positive cases of the new coronavirus.
Antarctica lives without masks against COVID-19
The population lives normally, without masks and without cases of COVID-19. However, it follows the development of the pandemic thousands of kilometers away. According to Lusa, about a thousand scientists and other professionals working in that territory are seeing the sun for the first time in weeks or months. There is a general mobilization to try that the new comrades who are about to arrive do not bring the virus.
Rob Taylor, field guide for the British research station "Rothera Research Station", explained to the Associated Press (AP) what it is like to live in what he describes as: "our little safe bubble."
In general, the freedom we have today is greater than that of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom at the height of its lockdown. We can ski, socialize normally, run, go to the gym, do everything within reason.
Well connected internet is one of the advantages
Good existing Internet connections allow the pandemic to advance to the rest of the planet. When the frightened world began lockdown in March, the Antarctic Programs agreed that the pandemic could cause a real disaster there. With the strongest winds and lowest temperatures in the world, the continent is already dangerous enough for workers at the 40 permanent bases there, Lusa says. Its size is similar to that of the United States and Mexico.
According to a COMNAP document cited by the Associated Press ...
A highly contagious new virus would mean mortality and morbidity in the extreme and austere environment of Antarctica, which, added to the limited medical and public health responses available, would represent a high risk, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Given that Antarctica is only accessible through a small number of air corridors or by sea, "everything must be done, immediately, to prevent the virus from reaching the continent," reads the report, which determines the end of contact with tourists and cruise ship disembarkation.
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