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Opening of borders: Uruguayan and Chilean tourists are allowed to enter from September 6

2021-08-28T01:20:33.366Z


It will function as a pilot test to later expand to other countries. Three provinces asked to reopen their airports and land crossings.


Natasha Niebieskikwiat

08/27/2021 21:38

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 08/27/2021 9:41 PM

As of Monday, September 6, Chileans and Uruguayans will be able to enter Argentina in what will be a

pilot test to open up to tourism.

This could be extended to the rest of foreigners, including other Latin Americans, Europeans and Americans if it works well and the rates of contagion and deaths from coronavirus do not increase,

national authorities

told

Clarín

.

Tourists must have a complete vaccination, negative PCR and an isolation that will be defined in the coming days.

Uruguay will fully open its borders for foreign tourists who are vaccinated with two doses, starting in November, while Chile remains closed. 

At the same time,

Córdoba, Salta and Mendoza were

confirmed this Friday as the provinces that have requested the

opening of their international airports and some of their border crossings

to receive Argentines, residents and tourists from Chile and Uruguay from abroad. 

The authorities seek to set up

"safe corridors

.

"

This was learned by this newspaper after a meeting held this Friday by representatives of the three provinces with the national director of Migration, Florencia Carignano, and the director of Border Health, Claudia Madies.


The Argentine borders remain closed since March 2020, with the Ezeiza, Aeroparque and San Fernando airports, plus the port of entry and exit of Buquebus through the Río de la Plata.

They are the only points of entry and exit to the country.

These have been opening or closing in different ways during the long Argentine quarantine. 

If approved, the three provinces will thus add to the quota of 2,300 international passengers that will be allowed per day from Monday, September 6. The Government assures that today there is an average of up to 1,500 passengers arriving per day in Ezeiza, after a series of tug of war after the harsh closure of last July when, fearing the entry of the Delta virus variant, the government dropped overnight the entry of passengers on foreign flights to 600. That decision

stranded thousands of people outside the country

, but especially in the United States. And to Argentina practically isolated.

Permits will be added to the opening of now for more private flights to enter.

And the idea they have is that the three provinces that will open their international airports - if they authorize them - decompress the entry of the 2,300 passengers allowed per day.

In other words, not everyone enters through Ezeiza. 

According to what was discussed in the Carignano and Madies meeting with the provinces, Córdoba, which is not a border province, asked to open

only its airport;

Mendoza its international air terminal and

the border crossing of Cristo Redentor

.

Salta, for its part, requested to be able to receive international passengers by plane and

Chileans and Argentines from the Sico pass. 

The national authorities consulted informed this newspaper that the provinces will also be required to follow the

same protocol as for the arrival of passengers through Ezeiza

: testing place, a laboratory and the procedure ready for when a person tests positive for coronavirus, including the sending of the test to Malbrán.

This centralization in Buenos Aires of the entire process will surely make the normalization of the arrival of flights to these provinces slow and cumbersome.

Meanwhile, while Tierra del Fuego asked to receive

international cruises

- those that are authorized and will arrive from October - Santa Cruz, which was traditionally a province with an immense reception of European tourists, has not yet asked for anything.

LM

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Source: clarin

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