Puerto Rico remains under travel warning for COVID-19

Traveling to Puerto Rico remains a contagion hazard COVID-19 among federal government parameters that keep the island on alert level 4, the highest warnings for travelers.

“Travelers should avoid all trips to Puerto Rico. Travel increases the risk of obtaining and passing on COVID-19, ”warns the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the notification it issued on December 2 that it remains active, warning that the danger of the virus get when you travel to Puerto Rico is “very high”.

However, about 11,000 passengers a day have arrived in Puerto Rico in the past two weeks, Jose Reyes, adjutant general of the National Guard (GN) warned.

As part of the actions taken in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, 260 members of the GN are stationed at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina to update the protocol for medical screening of travelers. live, he assured Kings.

Also, he said, there are personnel of that body at Aguadilla and Ponce airports for screening workers on cargo flights, and at Isla Grande airport for private flights. In addition, he indicated, screening is performed for flights from Ceiba to Vieques and Culebra, as well as at the Ceiba boat terminal for boat trips to the municipal islands. In total, he said, 1,500,000 medical screenings have been performed at these facilities.

Miriam Ramos Colón, epidemiologist in charge of the epidemiological surveillance system at the international airport, warned that given the current picture of viral infections on the island, the travel warning is not expected to be removed for the time being.

This epidemiological system followed 81,263 travelers until last week.

The United States, Canada, and South America remain at the same level of traveler alertness that the CDC has placed on Puerto Rico, as well as Europe, much of the continent of Asia and Africa.