With Itinerant testing and vaccination centers on beaches, mountains, dams, public walks and in the vicinity of festivals, the provinces expanded the control and vaccination operations against the coronavirus in the middle of the summer season, even with at free and federal access to the inoculation campaign so that tourists can complete their schemes while visiting different cities in the country.
While some 22 million tourists traveled through Argentine towns to enjoy their summer vacations, the provincial and municipal authorities set up various strategies to sustain basic care with limited capacity in theaters, nightclubs and recitals, as well as the possibility of bringing vaccination closer to places of rest.
Buenos Aires province
In this sense, in the province of Buenos Aires, the head of Sanitary Region VIII, Gastón Vargas, explained to Télam in Mar del Plata that “although positive cases continue to increase, the high percentage of vaccination has allowed us not to that number is transferred to hospitalizations” and pointed out that “we currently have six provincial testing centers” in the city.
Vargas stressed that “one of them is only for motorists and motorcyclists, while this week we have 11 vaccination posts, between fixed and itinerant ones.”
???? A new vaccination post began to work in #MarDelPlata which is located in the parador #Mute. This week it will work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The vaccination campaign reaches all Buenos Aires residents and those who choose @BAProvincia to rest. pic.twitter.com/i5n7gmA8VL
– SaludBAP (@SaludBAP) January 12, 2022
“Today we begin to vaccinate in the well-known Mute spa, located in the southern area of Mar del Plata, which is considered one of the meeting points for most young people during the summer. The objective is focused on hoarding, inviting young people to get vaccinated, whether they are tourists or residents”, highlighted the health doctor.
And, he remembered “the vaccine in the province of Buenos Aires it is free, free and federal”, after which he pointed out that “we are in a daily average of 6,000 people who are vaccinated in the district of General Pueyrredón”.
Córdoba
In Córdoba, the Ministry of Health incorporated vaccination clinics at different points tourism in the province and highlighted “the importance of vaccination against Covid-19 as the main strategy to contain the pandemic”.
In addition, it provided that in places where festivals, events and recreational activities take place, a sanitary pass is required, which must be presented together with the entrance ticket and the spectator’s ID, while the organizer will have the necessary personnel to control the entry and behavior of the assistants.
Every person, except those under 3 years of age, must wear a mask that adequately covers the mouth, nose and chin, for which there will also be face masks available to the public.
During the development of the festival activities, the spectators will keep the chinstrap correctly placed and each event must have sufficient space to guarantee physical distancing, except for a bubble constituted by a family group, as provided by the Provincial Health.
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– Ministry of Health of Córdoba (@minsaludcba) January 12, 2022
mendoza
In Mendoza, the southern town of Malargüe went out to vaccinate this week in Plaza San Martin, in the tourist complexes of Los Molles and even in the Niña Encantada lagoon “either for tourists or for residents of rural areas that offer tourist services in those areas,” said Tourism Director Marcelo Rivarola.
In San Rafael, “tourists can be vaccinated and a 24-hour permanent guard with an ambulance and nursing service, a testing center during the day and vaccination at the Valle Grande health post, one of the main tourist sites that visit this summer,” they reported from the Ministry of Health.
Throughout Mendoza, “the protocols have been arranged at the time and the massive vaccination campaigns that are aimed at the general public, as well as the testing centers and new vaccination points where everyone who wants to be vaccinated is vaccinated” , recalled government sources.
Santa Fe
In Santa Fe, the realization of popular festivals that take place in towns and cities was evaluated due to the validity of a resolution that suspends events that bring together more than 500 people.
The Minister of Public Management, Marcos Corach, stated this Wednesday that after the Cofesa meeting attended by his colleague from Health, Sonia Martorano, virtual meetings were held with mayors to publicize “the conclusions, the diagnosis of the province in epidemiological terms and then discuss the decisions to be made in the future”.
Corach pointed out that “in addition to each particular question that each one had, there was a topic that was the massive events and it was one of the things that we were debating, in terms of discouraging them from being carried out, at least for a short time. Later , we review it again according to the evolution of the pandemic “.
Land of Fire
Tierra del Fuego increased the swabbing and vaccination operations against the coronavirus to face the third wave due to the preponderance of the Omicron variant, although it did not establish any particular measure linked to the tourism sector, official sources confirmed.
The Fuegian government established specific places for testing people with or without symptoms, without distinguishing between residents and visitors.
In the city of Ushuaia, where the vast majority of the province’s tourist flow is concentrated, the swabbing is carried out from Monday to Saturday in a school gym.
The authorities arranged a double shift during the summer, to attend in order of arrival to those who show up both in the morning (from 7:30 to 11) and in the afternoon (from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m.).
Tourists visiting Tierra del Fuego must not comply with any health requirement from November 15, 2021, with the exception of foreigners who are subject to the measures provided by the National Government, such as having a complete vaccination schedule for at least fourteen days before entering the country, negative PCR test 72 hours before entry, health insurance with coverage for Covid-19 and the Cuidar application.
Tucuman
In Tucumán, due to the increase in cases of Covid-19, all the activities scheduled by the Ente Tucumán Turismo in the summer villages were adapted to these requirements established by the Emergency Operations Committee (COE), which consist of the request for a health pass; capacity in shows and quotas of people in the different proposals; and implementation of protocols to enjoy a safe summer.
NATION-PROVINCE: The “El Estado en tu Barrio” Vaccination Truck arrived in Tucumán to reinforce coverage https://t.co/BFa3UptM4l pic.twitter.com/ErXQLuyOAh
– TUC PUBLIC HEALTH (@MSALUDTUC) January 12, 2022
Likewise, the popular festivals that were going to take place within the framework of the summer season were suspended until January 31, as well as all the activities that bring together more than 400 people.
“We are in the middle of the summer season and today, after two years, we see that Tucumán is shaping up to have one of the best seasons because we have significant reserves in our Calchaquí Valley that exceed 90% occupancy,” said Governor Osvaldo Jaldo, who He called on citizens “to take care of the season”, taking extreme “care measures to protect health and sources of work at the same time.”
In the tourist centers of Tafí del Valle and El Cadillal, a vaccination service operates from Monday to Saturday, throughout the summer, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and testing from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Neuquen
In Neuquén, the provincial director of Primary Health Care, Matías Neira, told Télam that they had “specifically reinforced everything in the southern part of the province, the fourth area, which would be San Martín de los Andes, Villa La Angostura and Junin de los Andes”
“In San Martín, a vaccination device is working on the entrance route to the town, which is vaccinating very well and even Junín de los Andes was also going to add a device with the same characteristics,” Neira said, detailing that it works 10 to 20.
The official pointed out that vaccination devices are added in “all the parties and events that are taking place in the area” and stressed that “the reinforcement comes more than anything with incorporating strategies that at some point were done simultaneously throughout the province” .
“Within the provincial strategy, we have been vaccinating not only residents, but also tourists who are visiting the area for almost a month and a half,” he added, specifying that “it is not a requirement for vaccination to have an address in the province. , but take advantage of the opportunity of vaccination for those people who need to complete a schedule or receive a booster or even receive a first dose”.
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