RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, assured yesterday evening, October 18, that “between today and tomorrow the land borders between Entre Ríos and Uruguay will be opened” and enabled.
“In the next few days, if not today, we will start with the decrees”, remarked the national official during his visit to the Entre Ríos city of Gualeguaychú.
De Pedro explained in radio statements that the first step will be “to open the pass as a sanitary corridor”, and as from November 1st “the opening to foreigners from any part of the world will also be allowed.”
Land borders between Argentina and Uruguay will be opened “between today and tomorrow”. (Photo internet reproduction)By land, Entre Ríos and Argentina have three border crossings with Uruguay: Colón-Paysandú, Concordia-Salto and Gualeguaychú-Fray Bentos.
De Pedro pointed out that “the protocols existing at world level will be maintained: the vaccination certificate and a swab requested by the airlines and the one requested at the borders”. “Let’s remember that the Delta strain is still circulating in the world”, warned the minister.
The governor of Entre Rios, Gustavo Bordet, had requested the opening of the three border crossings to reactivate tourism and other activities because of the many separated families in the area.
“There are many families from both margins who have not been able to see each other for more than a year”, Bordet had said, so his request “focuses on the human part, on solving that problem and that they can be reunited”. He added that it would also promote “tourism, from which we expect a great affluence.”
The provincial government “is working together with the national government to define the protocols, we want the nationally determined one to be adapted for the residents of both cities, to work as bubbles with those families,” he added. “Also that they take advantage to shop and generate tourism, which has a dynamizing effect on the entire region,” concluded Bordet.