A man receives a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus illness (COVID-19) vaccine, marketed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) as COVISHIELD, in Guatemala City, Guatemala March 10,2021 REUTERS/Luis Echeverria
Guatemala will limit entry to visitors who have recently been to Brazil, the UK and South Africa in an effort to control a dive in coronavirus cases, President Alejandro Giammattei stated on Friday.
The step will enter into result on Saturday and last through April 30, using to travelers who have actually been to those nations within the previous two weeks, Giammattei said in a public address.
He kept in mind that Guatemala had actually registered 5,813 brand-new COVID-19 infections in the last 5 days, bringing the overall in the Central American nation to 210,667 validated cases.
” That has actually activated our alerts and requires us to need to decree a state of prevention right away,” Giammattei said.
Guatemala had previously enacted rigorous lockdowns and take a trip constraints to prevent the spread of the infection, which has caused 7,160 deaths in the country of 16 million individuals.
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