The new standard?
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It is not the destinations that attract tourists.Normally, travelers ask for places they visit, holding them accountable (to the point where you wonder if they are talking about a stretch of sand or a carefree ex-lover), on Tripadvisor.
2020 has replaced all that. It is now widespread that tourism-dependent destinations make requests for conditioning and protection to those approaching them, from the request for negative COVID control before leaving the airport to the application of a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine upon arrival, the methods are varied.
The goal? Limit COVID 19.
A Brazilian beach paradise just made an unconventional request from any visiting tourist. This application? To see Fernando de Noronha, a Brazilian island located 334 km off the country’s northeast coast (with the “best beach in the world” to boot), you will have to have had COVID.
Dig a little deeper and you’ll find that the application makes sense: you’ll have to have COVID and recovered.
“Visitors will need to realize that they have recovered from the virus and must undergo one of two types of tests (PCR virus tests or IgG antibody tests) at least 20 days before arriving on the island,” the traveler reports.
Famous for its abundant marine life, pristine beaches and stunning mountain slopes that emerge over the coast, Fernando de Noronha is a tourist mecca and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
“The resolution of the tourism-dependent archipelago, which has about 3100 permanent citizens according to the latest census estimate, attests to the exclusive way in which state, local and national governments seek to return to an appearance of normality with the new bodies.COVID-19 and deaths are stabilizing in many parts of the world,” Reuters reports.
Flights are already being filled with island employees.
– Bia Kicis (@Biakicis) 27 August 2020
The island’s resolution has also provoked a debate about the point of immunity that coronavirus patients expand after surviving a first infection.As reported through Reuters, cases of reinfection have been reported, adding that in Brazil these cases are “relatively rare”.
Guilherme Rocha, the administrator of Fernando de Noronha, said of the policy: “Only tourists who have already had a COVID and who have recovered and are immune to the disease will be allowed (because) they transmit it or become inflamed again.
André Longo, fitness secretary of Pernambuco state, said in a statement: “There has been no network transmission on the island in a long time.We’ll have to keep doing it.”
“Obviously, this step will take place in the field of security and the revival of economic activity in the archipelago.”
At the time of writing, Fernando de Noronha reported that 93 showed cases of coronavirus and no deaths.It banned tourism in March and has now reopened tourists who have recovered from COVID on 1 September.
Mainland Brazil has experienced 120,000 known deaths and 3.8 million cases shown.This number has started to stabilize in weeks, but remains high.
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