Chile, Bolivia, close borders, Peru locks down in COVID battle

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Chile closed all its borders for the month of April, Bolivia shuttered its frontier with Brazil and Peru went into Easter lockdown Thursday as South America moved to brake a quickening coronavirus pandemic.

Passengers who just landed wait to be transfered to designated facilities to comply with a ten-day quarantine imposed on travellers amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago on April 1, 2021. – Chile announced on April 1, 2021 that it will close its borders in April as of Monday amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.

The country passed the mark of a million reported infections , with 23,328 deaths recorded since March last year. Peru’s average daily infection rate last week exceeded 9,000, with about 200 fatalities every 24 hours for a total of more than 52,000 deaths to date.

 

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