Coronavirus: “You have to understand that today is not the time to travel”

Following the announcement of the new restrictions on international flights, the National Director of Migration, Florence carignano, asked Argentines to postpone their trips abroad and stressed that, although the government does not intend to close the borders, “if the internal situation gets out of control, we will have to close many things”.

The person in charge explained on Radio La Red the reduction of the frequencies of the flights which will govern from Monday. “With Brazil, there was already a reduction of 50% and the frequency of monthly flights has been reduced to 70%,” said the official and explained that the frequencies of flights to Chile, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador have also been reduced. “Not so much because of epidemiological clues, but because they are important connection centers and Argentines triangulate a lot. The big concern today is Brazil“

Carignano assured that, for the moment, the country’s borders would not be closed, although he asked the Argentines to postpone their flights. “We are not going to close the borders permanently, but what we take restrictive measures concerning the number of flights for which We Argentines understand that now is not the time to travel and we must postpone our trips. Very dangerous things are happening in the countries around us, you see the images of Brazil and they are scary, ”he said.

Currently, the situation of Brazil is alarming. The hospitals have collapsed, with a lot of patients who died while waiting for a bed in intensive care, the variant of coronavirus Highly contagious is spreading across the country, President Jair Bolsonaro insists on unproven treatments, and the only attempt to create a national plan to contain Covid-19 was not very consistent.

“We are doing relatively well, we are getting vaccinated, the boys have gone back to school and economic activity is starting, but If the internal situation gets out of hand, we will have to shut down many activities that the government is not in the mood to do.Carignano said and asked to submit to isolation when returning from a trip abroad.

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