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Argentina does not allow tourists to enter until July 9

The Argentine Government, chaired by Alberto Fernández, has announced an extension of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) that endorses the restrictive measures to deal with the coronavirus, which will last until July 9.

The main guidelines are focused on those people who return to the country, as borders will continue to be closed to tourism, has reported the newspaper ‘La Nación’. In this way, any person who is not Argentine and wants enter the country for the purpose of tourism, you will not be able to do so. In addition, they continue Suspended flights from the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, India, all African countries and Turkey.

Along the same lines, a quota of 600 daily passengers to enter the country, a rate that, until now, stood at 2,000 people a day. Those who return from abroad between July 1 and August 31 are obliged to quarantine in those places determined by the provincial governments for ten days from the COVID-19 detection test that must be carried out in their country originally.

On the other hand, the Argentine Government has agreed to purchase 24 million doses of the Chinese vaccine developed by the state company Sinopharm, as reported by the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, according to the newspaper ‘Clarín’.

At the same time, the minister has specified that Aerolineas Argentinas flights are being destined to Russia to “bring doses of components 1 and 2 “of Sputnik V, and has highlighted the commitment of the Russian Government to accelerate the start of vaccination with the second component to “continue completing schedules.”

Argentina has accumulated 4,374,587 confirmed cases since the pandemic broke out, which has left 91,979 deaths so far.

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