Residents in Cuba who are not vaccinated against COVID-19, when they travel to the island they will be forced to pay a quarantine in hotels decided by the regime, announced this Thursday the official press.
The measure is part of a package of sanitary provisions that will be in force as of January 5, 2022 and it will be applied to “Cubans residing in the country who do not have a vaccination scheme, to enter the national territory,” reported the newspaper Granma.
Shall “Comply with a mandatory quarantine, for eight days, in a hotel designated for this purpose, the traveler himself assuming the costs of accommodation and transportation”. In addition, “a sample collection for RT-PCR to SARS-COV-2 should be performed at the point of entry.”
On the seventh day of isolation in the hotel, “a new sample will be taken which, if negative, will allow discharge from quarantine on the eighth day.”
Cuba says goodbye to 2021 with an increase in coronavirus infections in recent days and 433 positive cases this Friday, according to a report from the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap).
The official number of patients with COVID-19 since arrival of the pandemic to the island, amounts to 966 004 people. Currently there are 1 210 active cases, including one patient in critical condition and 13 severe. The Minsap registers 8,322 deaths in total due to complications of COVID-19.
Several areas of Cuba have registered an increase in coronavirus cases in recent weeks from the arrival of omicron and the permanence of other variants of the virus, which caused a tightening of restrictive measures and meetings of local authorities, reported this 29 December media in Isle of Youth and Matanzas.
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