From this Monday, August 1, Rapa Nui reopens its facilities to receive tourists after two years and four months closed for the activity as a way to prevent Covid-19 infections in the population.
The resolution signed in the Official Gazette by the Ministries of National Assets, Health, Economy, Public Works, Social Development and Family and Interior is already found. This measure was worked in coordination with the local authorities and the airline Latam -the only one that goes to the Island-.
📣 As of today, what is described in Exempt Resolution No. 1,057 is implemented, which establishes requirements and sanitary measures in the transfer of travelers to Easter Island #RapaNui 🏝
For more information 👉🏻 https://t.co/ZtTzRoQfUU pic.twitter.com/u5Z1YOG5Q8
— Seremi de Salud Región Valparaíso (@SaludSsrv) August 1, 2022
Since when can tourists arrive?
This Thursday, August 4, the arrival of the first plane is planned -after two years- with tourists at Mataveri International Airport, as reported by the Undersecretary of Tourism, Verónica Kunze to Radio Cooperativa.
Anyone who would like to travel to Rapa Nui must complete a form, in addition to having a hotel reservation or formal invitation from a resident of the island in addition to having their identity card or passport up to date.
Another point to consider is that every traveler will be required to have a negative PCR 24 hours before their trip, and will also have to contrary with their mobility pass per day. There will be no preventive quarantine upon arrival.
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Faced with this historical fact, the mayor of Rapa Nui, Pedro Edmunds, indicated to the same media that “regarding the hospital and the preparation of the health system in general, we have already entered a normal state of operation, the hospital today is already strengthened with the COVID ICU specialists that we were requesting, more than 100 specialists are on the island both for the issue of traceability, through the Seremi de Salud”.
“Today we can sing, we can dance again as is characteristic of Rapa Nui, but in December, January and February people were sad for many reasons; one of them is that you couldn’t travel, it’s like your feet are cut off, you can’t walk and you depend on others, so that’s the feeling,” he added.
At the end, he said that “things have changed, the moods are different, you can see it in the people, we are recovering that cheerful personality very typical of here.”
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