Summer complicated for Argentines traveling to Uruguay on vacation 2021

Uruguay has seen significant increase in coronavirus infections for days and above all, in the capital, the new mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, has decided to restrict activities to stop the advance of the Covid-19: temporary closure of casinos, museums, theaters, cultural halls of the quartermaster, casinos and planetarium.

“We are experiencing an exponential growth in cases, (…) there is no neighborhood in Montevideo that does not have germs“Cosse warned, explaining that these measures consist of” taking extreme care for Covid-19 “.

Measures for the summer throughout Uruguay

Weather forecasts for the coming months indicate that there will be little rain and a lot of heat in the country, the Uruguayan Meteorological Institute reported today: less rain than normal and higher temperatures than usual.

Maldonado and Montevideo are two of the 18 departments with active cases of coronavirus, and for the Dec 18 the national government report on measures protection against the virus for this summer across the country.

In Maldonado, the town hall adjusts the measures for the season, and among other things, it will have signage to warn when there is a built-up area on the beaches.

These will be special flags that lifeguards will fly and serve both to alert the National Naval Prefecture, as well as to the general public, so that people avoid focusing on the same beach.

Last weekend, Some 200 inspections were carried out throughout the department of Maldonado and the cessation of activities in 50 establishments was noted for non-compliance which violate “the national decrees 9320 and 9420”, indicated the coordinator of the direction of the management of the environment, Carlos Medin, and “each case is being analyzed to establish the type of sanction which will be applied to them” .

Respectively, The decrees refer to the declaration of a state of national health emergency following the pandemic and an expansion of the measures in place to mitigate and prevent the consequences of the spread of the coronavirus.

Carnival in pause mode

For now, Montevideo has put the carnival “in pause mode”, Cosse confirmed. “This it doesn’t stop him, it pauses him and this is to insist that the rehearsals be interrupted. We are in an exceptional situation, and therefore, protect oneself and protect carnival and culturewe have to go into pause mode, ”he said.

The stewardship posted a video featuring the official, in which she explained that “we are going to shut down the municipal theaters. At times when culture is as necessary as daily bread, depending on what we mean to be a serious situation, we will be closing the municipal theaters. We will stay the trials bodies of municipal artists. We will close the museums, we will close the planetarium, ”he said.

“The the libraries of Montevideo, we are going to delete them so as not to have to close them, because these are places where people go to get a book, they won’t read, let’s take out the books“, a point.