They detect 55 other cases of coronavirus in two contingents of graduates returning from Cancun

Two new schools in the province of Buenos Aires have sounded the alarm for graduate trips to Cancun. To the 44 adolescents who tested positive for the coronavirus when they returned home last week, 55 new cases must be added on Sunday. In addition, they have confirmed that there is two contingents of schools in the city stranded by the growing wave of infections.

“School has nothing to do with travel because it’s something parents organize. They returned to my daughter’s school last Sunday but since it is a provincial school, it is not compulsory to take the test in Ezeiza. Our contingent was 88 boys and when they arrived 55 tested positive “, Laura, one of the mothers who received her daughter who graduated from a school in Pilar, confirmed in an interview with the A24 channel.

And he added, “The travel agency set up a lab in Cancun to certify the RAPs 72 hours before the trip, and the only thing we knew was that it cost $ 100. on arrival in the country the swabs gave other results. ”

In this sense, it was learned that in Mexico several laboratories that are in the tourist city are under study because there are different testimonies from Argentines who claim that the test results are adulterated so that travelers can take the flight. and return to the country. .

“Worry whyAbroad, we do not know what type of care there is. Mexico is known to have a high amount of daily infections and there is no high containment measure. We must try to avoid this kind of travel, ”said infectious disease specialist Eduardo Lopez, in statements to the same television station.

The specialist, who is part of the infectious disease specialist group that advises the government, pointed out that there is no indication whether those infected have introduced new strains into the country.

“We still don’t know if these teenagers brought the new strains. We don’t have the studies. What I can certify is that if there were so many infections at once, it is because ‘it’s clear that no chinstrap was used and there was no respect for social distancing. There was no care for the teenagers and they surely were all together in poorly ventilated places, ”he explained.

An important fact: from February 17 to this Monday, 35 schools went to Cancun via one of the travel agencies in charge of the contingents of graduates abroad: Moon Travel.

“For reasons of confidentiality, we cannot say which contingents are still in Cancun. I can certify that since mid-February, there are 35 schools that have traveled,” they said of the travel agency. -even.

By administrative decision 219/2021 published in the Official Journal, with the signature of the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero; the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo Wado de Pedro; and the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, it was decided to keep the frequencies of flights from Mexico and Europe reduced to 30% of the capacity and, from now on, this same limit will apply to planes from from Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama. and Chile.

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