To prevent entry of new strains, the government has suspended flights to various destinations

National government cuts 20% flights with Europe and suspended new destinations, such as Turkey and countries on the African continent, to avoid Entrance different strains coronavirus, according to administrative decision 589/2021, published this Saturday in the Official Journal.

The rule bears the signature of the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero; the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo de Pedro; and the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti.

As President Alberto Fernández expressed this week, the government is particularly concerned about the Delta variant, which originates in India, and which is “more transmissible and potentially more serious”, according to the recitals of the regulation published on Saturday.

The aim of the decision is “to reduce international traffic and prevent new strains of coronavirus from reaching Argentina” which are circulating in other countries.

Thus, “the national health authority considers it necessary to extend and extend the preventive measures adopted by administrative decision n ° 2252/20 and its additional regulations, in the protection of public health”, indicates the text.

Ezeiza International Airport.

Thus, article 1 extends until June 25, including decisions relating to “authorizations and permits” relating to “passenger and passenger air transport operations on direct flights from or to the United Kingdom. United of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ‘and Turkey and countries on the African continent were added.

At the same time, the flights from “Brazil, Chile and India”, facing the new lineage in the sequencing of local samples, with regard to the entry of people, are also still in force.

At the same time, article 2 provides that the Ministry of Transport “will order a 20% reduction in the frequencies of passenger flights from or to European countries”.

Travel abroad: everything you need to consider

Travel abroad: everything you need to consider

However, the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC) “may extend, reduce or eliminate such a percentage reduction, upon prior intervention by the health authority”.

On the other hand, he specifies that the Ministry of Health “will determine the entry points into the country, the routes and the places which meet the best basic capacities to respond to the health emergency”.

Likewise, the National Directorate of Migration can “authorize the entry of persons into the national territory through other border crossings, when there are special and accredited humanitarian reasons which justify it”.