Covid: despite the strictest controls, one in three travelers does not respect the quarantine when they return to the country

Natasha Niebieskikwiat

06/27/2021 4:46 PM

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Updated 06/27/2021 4:46 PM

Despite the tightening of State controls so that those who come from abroad comply with a 7-day quarantine at their homes,

a third of them do not carry it out.

The measure was taken to try to stop the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.

This was verified by a

survey of the

National Migration Directorate

between June 13 and the last weekend.

This was done on the eve of the new restrictions that will take effect from this Monday when the passenger arrivals allowed by Ezeiza go from about 2,000 to 600 per day.

The rest of the measures to try to stop the coronavirus health crisis will take effect from Thursday, July 1.

In mid-June, when the Government recognized its fear that the contagious Delta variant (originally detected in India) would begin to circulate in a community manner in the country, the control operation was launched with inspectors going

house-to-house

for the arriving passengers. .

They did not go to all of them, but they went to certain addresses chosen on a map.

From June 14 to 20, the inspections detected

40 percent

non-compliance with quarantine, which may lead to criminal cases, the authorities consulted said.

That percentage dropped a bit as of June 25, but remains high:

35 percent

.

1,998 inspections were made of the homes of those who had to be "kept". In the hours that were

691 were not there

, 1307 yes.

These are the total figures of all inspections carried out in the country.

"The problem with home quarantine, as we saw, is that

it is not being complied with

. People believe that because they are vaccinated and the tests were carried out when entering the country, that is it.

And it is not like that,

" said Florencia Carignano, the director of Migrations in dialogue with Radio Jai.

"The monitoring of the Ministry of Health has detected many cases in which the disease manifests itself

2 or 3 days after admission

. And there is also the fantasy that because they are vaccinated they are not going to be infected and it is

another big mistake,

" he added.

In addition to a negative PRC to be able to travel, and an antigen test that a private laboratory does in Ezeiza to every passenger who arrives in Ezeiza, the affidavit that is signed before embarking to Argentina establishes a commitment of

ten days of quarantine

that begin to govern 72 hours before taking the flight, with which, at home they end up being a seven-day lockdown.

As of Thursday 1 ° in addition,

each province

will decide

where the

arriving citizen

will quarantine

, which will not always be at their homes. 

Carignano referred this Sunday to the complaints caused by the new package of restrictions without the deaths and infections going down.

President Alberto Fernandez paid this Sunday a tribute to the almost 100,000 lives that the virus has taken.

"All countries have been taking measures to delay the entry of the most virulent new variants of COVID. It is impossible to prevent the entry of strains, COVID has reached all countries. The measures that countries have taken have had to do with it. with

delaying the entry of these new variants

to be better prepared, "said the official, whose direction depends on the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo" Wado "de Pedro.

"In a pandemic, countries have had to choose between the bad and the less bad. It is an exceptional situation in the world. Today we prefer that some Argentines

delay a few days in entering the country

and not that thousands of children have to stop going to the school again or that merchants have to close their businesses again because of a new wave of this Delta variant that is 60% more contagious. "

So far,

three cases

of the new mutation discovered in India

have been detected in Argentina

.

All were imported: they were passengers who were infected abroad and their covid-19 picture was detected when they arrived in Ezeiza.

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