The government extends the health emergency until the end of the year

The health emergency It was declared by the executive on March 12 by Decree No. 260, in which it developed “for a period of ONE (1) year, the public health emergency instituted by Law No. 27,541, by virtue of the pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) in connection with the Covid-19 coronavirus“.

The decree of March 2020 establishes “public health emergency for a period of one year “, and empowers the Ministry of Health “as executing authority“.

In the DNU, they established “recommending travel restrictions from or to affected areas and from or to affected areas at greater risk, giving an intervention to the competent authorities for their implementation”.

In addition, they regulate the “obligation to comply with isolation for ten days from the onset of symptoms or diagnosis in asymptomatic cases “.

On March 8, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared a health “emergency” for all of Latin America, after the discovery of a new variant of Covid-19 in Brazil.

EL DNU 167/2021