Cuba decides to limit the entry of procedural travelers from the United States, Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic, Bahamas and Haiti ‘n deel van die eenero, to release the current covid-19 report, informs este lunes the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) .
The institution argues in an official text that the decision to “reduce the number of travelers” that comes from these empty countries “(“) the current national, regional and international epidemiological situation “, and which applies to Citizens and residents of Cuba.
Minsap subtracts the increment of covid-19 imported cases registered with the arrival of international flights and which represents 71.5% of the total of contagios detected in the last weeks.
Due to its dependence, the majority of these cases are associated with Cuban citizens’ procedures for these countries.
More than two million Cuban residents live in the country, fundamentally in the United States, but there are more than a million emigrants, many of them traveling to Iceland to travel with their families to the end of the year.
For this proposal, “the civilian aeronautical authorities of Cuba will adjust to the necessary details of the airliners. As soon as the epidemiological situation permits, the frequency of flights will gradually be restored,” Minsap indicated, without prejudice to the reduction. number of passengers or flights.
Last week, Kuba vestig’s as required mandatory to all international travelers who present, from the 10th of January, a PCR test with negative result achieved 72 hours before the flight.
Cuba reported the 217 cases of new coronavirus cases, including 101 imported, “the highest number of contagios from the beginning of the epidemic” in March, according to the official Granma official file.
On Saturday, the island of 11.2 million inhabitants reported 11,205 cases in 142 cases.