Penelope Canonico
03/29/2021 4:29 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/29/2021 4:29 PM
Triple testing of passengers returning to the country.
Before getting on the plane that travels to Argentina, upon arrival at the Ezeiza airport and a third test seven days after arrival (in addition to the mandatory isolation at home to prevent any margin of error).
But
the situation is not the same if the swab in Ezeiza yielded a positive result.
Since the beginning of the restrictions and greater controls on people entering the country from Brazil, Chile and Mexico, which started this weekend, 15 passengers tested positive for coronavirus, according to the National Director of Migration, Florencia Carignano.
Twelve were from Mexico: the majority from Cancun.
One from Saint Paul.
Two from Miami.
“Today we started
testing passengers on all flights
.
The last two cases were detected this morning in one from Miami (American Airlines).
No cases were reported in the one in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, which reached 14:31.
One from Asunción is expected at 8:30 pm, ”said the official.
María Par, one of the passengers on the flight from Miami, explains: “We got off the plane in groups of 50 people to form a line and complete an affidavit in which they asked us our seat number and if in the last 14 days We were in one of the three countries whose flights were suspended by the Government.
I paid $ 2500 for the test, they swabbed me and between 30 and 40 minutes they gave me the result.
Now I take a taxi straight to my house ”.
For Florencia and Federico, control didn't make much sense.
"People crowd at the exit," they complained.
"Besides, it is an untimely measure.
It should have been taken last year ”.
As the first positive is for antigen (a faster and easier test), both the passenger and their close contacts are transferred to another sector, a tent in front of the airport where the covid19 testing center operates.
"There, they perform another PCR (it costs $ 4000) that is sent to the laboratory to perform genomic sequencing," they explain from Migrations.
They are preventively isolated in the health hotels that were agreed with the City (they are part of the accommodations designated by the government to house the infected) until the Malbrán determines what strain it is.
If it is the one with community circulation that is already in Argentina, you can take the remaining time of the disease at home, until you receive the medical discharge.
However, if you are infected with the newer variants (Manaus or Great Britain), you will have to remain isolated in that hotel until the health authority says otherwise.
Passengers who were seated in the rows on the sides, front or rear, are specially monitored.
Flight rescheduling The National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) announced on Saturday that all international flights that were approved as of Monday, March 29, 2021, will be rescheduled for the same scheduled days, but at different times.
The goal is to reduce frequencies.
The modification aims exclusively at generating a distance between each arrival of around 120 minutes.
The measure, as explained by the ANAC in an official statement, is "a mere rearrangement and redistribution of flights in order to comply with the corresponding sanitary measures."
Leo Carbia (44) and Fran Klein (33) met in the parking lot of the Ezeiza airport.
One arrived at 6 AM from Mar del Plata and the other 3 AM from Benavídez.
United by the bewilderment that the flight they would share
to Madrid, Iberia, has been suspended without prior notice.
“I have not visited my family for two years because the 2020 program was canceled.
In December I decided to go and the tickets (with return in two months) I bought in February.
Now, I find out that the flight was canceled when I stepped foot in Ezeiza and they didn't even let me enter the airport with the cold it was at dawn.
The funny thing is that in the app and on the web it is still active at 1:20 pm ”, he lamented
as he waited for the counter to open to ask for an explanation.
His colleague adds: “We hope that the PCR deadline does not expire.
I make a stopover in Madrid to take off to Berlin.
I want to resume the trip that I had started on February 20 of last year with a volunteer in South Africa where I took care of monkeys ”.
GS
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