Adds newly introduced restrictions, context LIMA, Dec 21 (R
Adds newly introduced restrictions, context
LIMA, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Peru suspended flights from Europe for 2 weeks and has put its well being and journey authorities on excessive alert to forestall the entry of a brand new pressure of coronavirus that appeared in the UK, President Francisco Sagasti stated on Monday.
Sagasti stated no direct flights from the UK had entered the nation since December 15, when flights from Europe restarted. However well being authorities had been monitoring passengers from Britain who had entered by connecting flights, he stated.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated final week {that a} new pressure of the coronavirus had led to surging an infection numbers, prompting international locations worldwide to droop flights to and from the UK.
The announcement comes as hard-hit Peru nears a million instances of COVID-19, amid rising issues over a second wave of the virus following the end-of-year holidays.
Well being officers in Peru have prohibited using non-public autos on Dec. 24, 25 and 31, in addition to on New 12 months’s Day to cut back motion, and have discouraged Peruvians from visiting household over the vacations.
Along with suspending flights from the UK, Peru on Monday additionally prohibited the entry of non-resident foreigners who had been within the UK in the final two weeks. Peruvians or non-residents already within the nation who had not too long ago visited the UK can be required to spend 14 days in isolation.
Coronavirus instances in Peru hit 997,517 on Sunday, with 37,103 deaths from the illness, based on official figures.
Peru has already signed a preliminary settlement with Pfizer to purchase 9.9 million doses of its vaccine, and inked a agency cope with the Covax Facility, an alliance led by the World Well being Group, to accumulate one other 13.2 million doses.
Sagasti’s authorities stated final week it didn’t know when the primary doses can be arriving within the Andean nation, nor what number of can be included within the first cargo.
(Reporting by Marco Aquino; writing by Dave Sherwood; Enhancing by Angus MacSwan and Dan Grebler)
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