The government of Uruguay prepares a plan, to be announced on August 9, to reopen its borders from September. In the first place, homeowners without residence who are vaccinated and then foreign tourists would be allowed to enter that country; In addition, the possibility of offering the so-called vaccine tourism is being studied.
Despite the presence of the variant Delta in that country, a reopening of international tourism is expected next month. This supported on the significant drop in Covid-19 infections due to high vaccination, according to the local media El País. To which is added the application of a third dose for those immunized with Sinovac. Companies in the tourism sector await tomorrow’s conference by President Luis Lacalle Pou.
So far, about the possible announcements that the Uruguayan government will make, it is known that in September will enable the entry of homeowners without residence who are vaccinated. A month later, according to what his Minister of Tourism, Germán Cardozo, told the local media, “if everything goes well” the entry of foreign tourists vaccinated, with two doses and 15 days after immunization.
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Regarding those inoculated with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the most applied in Argentina, the undersecretary of Public Health of the neighboring country, José Luis Satdjian, anticipated: “We are going to accept them”.
Beyond what was said by the undersecretary, this is a sensitive issue that is being analyzed in the Uruguayan government since it is a vaccine not yet endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO). A precedent that could play in favor is that something similar happened in that country with the Sinovac vaccine, which began to be applied before the approval of the international body.
A third theme to define, and that could be added to the announcements on Monday, is the vaccine tourism, that is, the possibility of inoculating foreigners in Uruguay. This point “is being discussed” with the president and the Minister of Public Health, Cardozo said.
“Today we have enough stock of vaccines until 2023,” Minister Cardozo said a few days ago in the Chamber of Deputies., and in that sense he explained that if vaccine tourism takes place, it would be more about the summer season. The central government clarified that this scenario would only materialize after all Uruguayans who want to can receive their third dose.
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