Foreigners with negative PCR and two vaccines can enter Uruguay without quarantine

MONTEVIDEO.- The government of Uruguay resolved this Wednesday that Foreigners who enter the country with a negative PCR test will be exempt from quarantine and the two doses of one of the coronavirus vaccines, in addition to the 15 days following the end of the vaccination. This was reported by Telemundo and confirmed by El País based on presidency sources.

So far, a series of conditions for entering the country during the health emergency apply. A negative PCR test for the coronavirus is required, performed up to 72 hours before the start of the trip, and an affidavit is requested through the Coronavirus Uy app or the online procedures website where the absence of symptoms and the contact with a confirmed or suspected COVID – 19 cases and the preventive quarantine of seven days, which is now increasing.

Reopening

On the other hand, from next Monday free gyms and shops will reopen, closed by government order since March 23, as part of the measures taken to stop the spread of coronavirus infections, as reported by Telemundo and confirmed government sources in El País.

President Luis Lacalle Pou He said on Tuesday in Las Piedras that he agreed to the reopening of the gymnasiums and that he had discussed the matter with Sports Secretary Sebastián Bauzá, but that he had not discussed it with the ministers. “We all know that sport is health and if it is done with certain protocols… I was talking with Sebastián Bauzá, but it is not a decision taken, it is simply a personal vision. Of all the activities that cannot be carried out today, this is the one that I think we must return to in the future, ”the president said.

The news of the reopening of the is given after several mobilizations of gym owners and after the formal request of the deputies to the presidency to resume the activity of free stores, made a week ago. “We want the free stores to be open and we are going to be the first responsible for calling for the closure as cases increase due to the entry of Brazilians,” said at the time MP Carmen Tort (National Party ).

Regarding the return to face-to-face teaching, Lacalle Pou announced that this Wednesday there could be “news from the educational authorities”.

“One thing is the return of children to class and another is what happens when parents pick them up. We have to try to ensure that the problems that going back to school can cause do not happen there, ”said the president, quoted by the local newspaper El Observador.

Uruguay, which last year was one of the countries with the best pandemic control in the region, led the rate of deaths per million people from coronavirus worldwide last week (15,22) , according to data from the Our World in Data website.

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