[News] These are the 24 new international destinations to which you can travel from November

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The Government will increase international flights from November and will include another nine American countries, including the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) reported on Twitter that "it will enable 24 air routes to 10 countries in North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean" as part of the modifications in the restrictions imposed to face the COVID-19 pandemic .

These flights have a range of 8 hours duration, "he added before specifying that trips to the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Brazil, and Argentina are being added, as well as a new destination. towards Colombia.

After having kept the borders and airspace closed since March 16, the authorities this month authorized the start of flights of up to four hours to cities in Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile.

This Wednesday, President Martín Vizcarra announced that the Government decided that from November this measure will be extended to flights of up to eight hours in duration, while a gradual opening of land borders will also begin.

The MTC later detailed that flights to and from North America will include the cities of Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Miami, Houston, Atlanta, Mexico City and Cancun.

The new destinations allowed in Central America and the Caribbean will be to Havana, Montego Bay, Punta Cana, San José and San Salvador, while in South America it will fly to Cartagena, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Foz de Iguazú , Buenos Aires, Rosario, Mendoza, Córdoba and Tucumán.

Vizcarra indicated that the coordination for this measure to be implemented will be carried out by the MTC and the requirement that passengers arriving in Peru have the negative result of a molecular test for COVID-19 will be maintained, because otherwise "immediately" they will be sent "back to their place of origin". (EFE)