Chile reopens its air border to boost tourism

Chile will reopen its air border and the country’s main airport from tomorrow to allow entry of foreign citizens, who will have to negative test coronavirus and health insurance.

In anticipation of this event, a ceremony was held at the Arturo Merino Benítez airport in Santiago, during which President Sebastián Piñera called for not neglecting biosecurity measures to prevent a second hello from the virus affect the country.

“The coronavirus is still with us and therefore we cannot neglect ourselves, we must take care of yourself our health, we must learn to live or coexist with it, ” said the president, surrounded by the ministers of Health, Interior and Transport as well as other authorities.

Piñera stressed that measures are being taken to prevent a second wave of Covid-19 and reiterated his call on citizens to be responsible and to take extreme measures precautions during the summer to achieve this.

The reopening, which will be gradual and it will gradually be extended to other airports and land and sea entry points, is part of the “Step by step” plan designed by the government and attempts to reactivate one of the sectors most affected by the coronavirus, tourism.

Tourists entering the country must show proof PCR negative with a maximum of 72 hours before boarding, a health insurance which covers your medical benefits in the country and an affidavit of your health.

Chileans and foreigners entering will be subject to a period of 14 day monitoring and must report their Location and the state of health to the health authority to guarantee traceability cases, which the country has insisted on in recent months.

These people who come from countries declared high risk by the World Health Organization (WHO) must maintain a 14-day quarantine on arrival.

In 2019, Chile received the visit of more than 4 million foreigners, while in the first months of 2020, just over a million entered the country, according to figures provided by the Minister of Economy, Lucas Palacios.

The country closed all of its borders due to the coronavirus on March 18, two weeks after the first case of infection was notified. Since then, 540,640 infections and more than 15,069 deaths from the disease have been recorded.

(Source package: AP)