Chile: Santiago airport will make entry more flexible with random PCR test controls
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – During Chile‘s last Covid-19 balance, held around noon on Monday, March 7, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, stated that the entry to the country at the Arturo Merino Benítez Airport in Santiago would be a little more flexible.
The leader of the Chilean Health Ministry (Minsal) explained that as from Tuesday, March 8, a PCR test will be randomly performed on half of the passengers to avoid the traffic jams that have been generated up to now and that have come to vary between a wait ranging from three to six hours.
So far, Chile and the United States are the only countries in America that apply this measure of requiring a PCR test at arrival at the airport.
According to the ministry, the measure was contemplated since there is a high circulation of Omicron in the country (and Omicron 2), and there are no new strains, so it is possible to relax this measure for the time being.
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