Guatemala blocks lumber from Brazil, UK and South Africa in contemporary COVID measure

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala will limit entry to guests who comprise currently been to Brazil, the UK and South Africa to have the opportunity to manipulate a bounce in coronavirus cases, President Alejandro Giammattei acknowledged on Friday.

The measure will shuffle into perform on Saturday and final by plan of April 30, making expend of to vacationers who comprise been to those countries at some level of the prior two weeks, Giammattei acknowledged in a public tackle.

He illustrious that Guatemala had registered 5,813 contemporary COVID-19 infections within the final 5 days, bringing the total within the Central American country to 210,667 confirmed cases.

“That has prompted our alerts and forces us to favor to decree a explain of prevention in an instant,” Giammattei acknowledged.

Guatemala had beforehand enacted strict lockdowns and lumber restrictions to forestall the spread of the virus, which has prompted 7,160 deaths within the country of 16 million of us.