So far, there are no new restrictions in El Salvador other than the ban on flights from the United Kingdom and South Africa.
The new strain of the coronavirus that mainly affects England has set off alarms worldwide, in the face of a new possible wave of infections. The variant that this new strain is spreading more quickly, has even led to several countries restricting the entry of people from this European country.
The Minister of Health, Francisco Alabi, stated on Monday that the increase in daily infections is due to the agglutinations that are taking place in different municipalities for parties, Christmas and New Year’s shopping.
With the new strain of virus, each infected person could pass the virus to 10 more, according to the minister.
Faced with such a health scenario, the official said on Tuesday during the Canal 21 television interview that “he would not want the population to go through the situation that has already been experienced”.
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In this regard, the official warned that if the number of cases increases or there is a risk of entry of the new strain, the closure of El Salvador airport “could be one of the tools to contain the contagion.”
“If we manage to delay the arrival of a new strain of coronavirus in time, measures can be implemented to prevent the population, especially the vulnerable, from being affected,” he said. allege the minister.
So far, El Salvador has banned people from entering the flight route that has included the United Kingdom or South Africa in the last 30 days, the government announced last Sunday.
The Salvadoran government has also recommended that all Salvadorans who are in Europe and plan to enter the country in the coming weeks, speed up their process.
“Salvadorans who are in Europe and who want to return to El Salvador in the coming weeks are advised to speed up their travel itineraries as much as possible, before new restrictions have to be imposed by the new coronavirus strain,” he said. president Bukele.
Measures that violate the Constitution
Without underestimating the dangers that a new strain of COVID-19 can close, two prominent constitutionalist lawyers reminded the Nayib Bukele government that the Constitution prohibits it from preventing the entry of Salvadorans. The same thing was already banned by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court last September in a ruling.
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Lawyers Rubén Zamora and Enrique Anaya do not hesitate to point out that President Bukele cannot eventually leave Salvadorans from Europe stranded abroad, so they recommend that he look for other legal health mechanisms.
Article 5 states that “no Salvadoran may be expatriated, or prohibited from entering the territory of the Republic, or denied a passport for his return or other identification documents.”
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