Uruguay will allow entry of foreign owners with vaccines and PCR negative from September 1

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou announced on Monday that From September 1, foreign owners vaccinated with a negative PCR will be able to enter the country. And on November 1, the South American nation will open its borders to anyone who is immune., as long as the evolution of the pandemic allows.

“The Council of Ministers has today defined the following: in terms of borders, from September first it will allow the entry into our country of those who turn out to be owners in our country, who are immune and you are going to need a PCR negative at the time of entry, ”said the Uruguayan president.

And to add: “On November 1, two months later, the opening of the borders will be more important. We are going to have a vaccination above 75%, if people continue to be vaccinated, we will have almost fully administered the third dose, and this November 1 we will allow the entry into our country of all foreigners who are vaccinated and who have negative PCR”.

Three people died on Monday in Uruguay with a diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, after two days without death from this disease, according to the daily report of the National Emergency System (Sinae).

Two women aged 56 and 71 from Montevideo and an 87-year-old man, also from the capital, were the fatal victims of this day, during which 112 cases were recorded in the 7,709 analyzes performed.

Since December 13, 2020, the date on which the health emergency was declared in Uruguay, The South American country has accumulated 5,989 deaths from this disease.

At the end of December the numbers started to rise and months later the country started with an exponential increase which was reflected in numbers of over 70 deaths per day in April and thousands of new cases per day.

The country has added, since the start of the crisis, 382,607 cases of COVID-19, including 1,541 people with the disease, including 29 admitted to intensive treatment centers (ICS).

Uruguay remains in the yellow zone of the Harvard index, which accumulates the weekly average of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, with a record of 4 and three of the 19 departments are already green: Flores (south), Durazno (center) and Lavalleja (south-east).

Regarding vaccination, and according to the web monitor developed by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) until 6:27 p.m. (9:27 p.m. GMT) this Saturday, 289,441 people have been vaccinated only with the first dose, while 2,307,610 (65.13% of the population) have already completed the vaccination schedule of Chinese pharmaceutical companies Sinovac, Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca and American Pfizer.

Uruguay opened the agenda last week for those – after being immunized with Coronavac or AstraZeneca – choose to receive a third dose, in this case of Pfizer, as approved by health authorities last week

(With information from EFE)

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