Uruguay published the decree to reopen the borders: foreigners with property and their relatives can enter up to the second degree

The reopening of borders in Uruguay will have a gradual return from September 1, when foreigners who have property in the country They will be able to enter by accrediting the property by notary or affidavit. The Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, detailed the registration conditions in a decree.

The document specifies that “the owners and holders of social participations or shares of legal persons and the final beneficiaries thereof of real estate located in the country, who will be accredited by a notarial certification issued by a notary authorized in the Republic Eastern Uruguay or sworn statement (Article 239 of the Penal Code), They will be able to enter from September 1, 2021 and do so accompanied by their spouse or common-law partner and their relatives of the first and second degree of consanguinity.”.

In Uruguayan law, the degree of kinship is determined by counting all those that exist until reaching the common trunk by the two branches of descent and descent. From where siblings are second-degree related; uncle and nephew, in the third degree; first cousins, in the fourth degree.

The decree also explains that those who enter the country protected by this new exception they must present a negative PCR test and, on the seventh day of your stay in Uruguay, they will have to accredit a new negative test. In both cases, the analyzes must be paid for by each interested party.

In addition, upon entering Uruguay, at border crossings, people will receive a form, where they have to enter their personal data and prove the ownership they own. And right there must present their vaccination certificate, either in single dose or in two doses, depending on the laboratory which administered the vaccines approved in their country of origin.

The decree added that this vaccination must have been “in the last six months prior to dispatch or arrival in the country and the respective waiting periods have been observed to obtain effective immunity”.

Thus, this September 1, Uruguay will take the first step to reopen its borders definitively. The next one will take place two months later, November 1, when the entry of all foreigners is allowed Although, in both cases, the requirement will be that they have two doses of one of the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Minister of Defense, Javier Garcia, pointed out that in recent days they were working “elbow to elbow“ with the different portfolios linked to this reopening such as the Ministry of Health, the Interior, Tourism and even also with the National Directorate of Customs.

“When you arrive at the border post, if you meet all the conditions, you can have adequate transit. We are in a situation that is not normal, all these things are done for the sanitary moment that our country and the region are experiencing, ”he stressed.

The Uruguayan government decreed the border closures on March 17, 2020, although it gradually allowed the transit of Uruguayans and residents. However, last December and due to the increase in cases, the entry of nationals who planned to return home for the Christmas holidays was also interrupted.

Already in January 2021, a new decree allowed the entry, among others, of foreigners residing in the country, crews of planes and ships, carriers, accredited diplomats, cases of family reunification or for economic purposes, under the express authorization of the Executive.

Uruguay added 84 new cases this Friday in 6,584 analyzes, while registering a deceased with a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as evidenced by its daily report by the National Emergency System (Sinae).

The only death of the day is that of a 47-year-old woman from Rocha County and, thus, the death toll from the disease stood at 6,026 since March 13, 2020, when the health emergency was declared in the South American country.

Uruguay has added, since the start of the crisis, 384,531 cases of COVID-19, including 1,175 people with the disease, including 10 admitted to intensive treatment centers (ICS).

The South American country remains in the yellow zone of the Harvard index, which cumulates the weekly average of new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, with a record of 2.88. Of the 19 departments of the country, five of them are in the green zone: Río Negro (west), Tacuarembó (north-east), Durazno (center), Florida (center) and Flores (south-west) while the others are yellow.

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