Marina Artusa
08/23/2021 9:58 AM
Clarín.com
World
Updated 08/23/2021 9:58 AM
Starting this Tuesday, Argentines traveling to Spain will not have to comply with the ten-day quarantine that the Spanish government had imposed in July on travelers from
six countries in Latin America
and Africa, including Argentina.
This was confirmed to
Clarín on
Monday by a source from the Spanish Ministry of Health, which had established the measure on July 23 and affected passengers on
flights from Argentina
, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Namibia and South Africa, for be considered high risk for Covid infections.
The mandatory quarantine, which could be reduced from 10 to 7 days if the person underwent a PCR test and the result was negative, was originally going to be in effect
until 9 August
.
But Spain extended the measure until midnight this Monday.
Passengers upon arrival at the facilities of Terminal T4 of the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport.
Photo: Europa Press
Requirements
In other words, from this Tuesday, Argentines traveling to Spain must have
completed the vaccination schedule
against the coronavirus at least fourteen days before landing on Spanish soil.
This vaccination will be considered valid
only if they were immunized with any of the sera authorized
by the European Medicines Agency -Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Janssen- or approved by the World Health Organization, which adds to the previous vaccines Sinopharm and the Sinovac-Coronavac.
For those who were
vaccinated with Sputnik V
, not yet recognized in Europe, the requirement to enter Spain is to have
a negative PCR
performed 48 hours before arrival.
Argentines traveling to Spain must have completed the coronavirus vaccination schedule.
Photo: Europa Press
And what happens to the Argentines who completed their vaccination schedule with a mixture of vaccines, one of which is the Russian Spuntik?
Spain, for now, will
not consider
these guidelines
valid
with vaccine mixtures.
Those in this situation will have to undergo PCR.
Not everyone can travel
Even so, not all Argentines can, for now, enter Spain.
According to the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, those who have a
passport from a country of the European Union
or those who have residence in one of the nations that make it up, plus associated states such as Andorra, Monaco, The Vatican or San Marino.
Those who
are married
or live as a couple
can also do so
- the coexistence must be registered in an official registry - with Spanish citizens.
Parents or children of a Spaniard could also travel, as long as the motivation is
the family reunion.
"People who document
reasons of force majeure
or situation of need, or whose entry is allowed for humanitarian reasons", adds the regulations on
"the new requirements for entry into Spain
in the context of the situation generated by Covid-19" late July.
Since the Covid set foot in Spain, at the end of January 2020, and until Friday, August 20, 2021, the Spanish health service had detected, through diagnostic tests, almost
4,800,000 cases of coronavirus
, although supposes that the infected have been many more for those cases that were not diagnosed by the health system.
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Spain began to vaccinate against the coronavirus at the end of December last year and, since then, 65.5 percent of the
47 million Spaniards have already received the complete
immunization
schedule
against Sars-Cov-2.
And this weekend, 400 thousand doses arrived in Argentina that Spain donated.
"With the president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, we have accompanied each other in the response to the pandemic," said President Alberto Fernández on social media.
That brotherhood is reflected in the 400 thousand doses of AstraZeneca that they gave us to continue advancing with vaccination.
I thank the Spanish government and my dear friend. "
Madrid. Correspondent
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