Peru's famous Machu Picchu ruins, closed for months due to the coronavirus epidemic, reopened to a lucky Japanese tourist on Monday after spending months stranded in the country due to international travel restrictions.
In a video first released by The Guardian,
Jesse Takayama thanked officials who made a special request to visit the ruins
after arriving months ago in a small town near the ruins, where COVID-19 Was
banned by the Peruvian government and others around the world.
"They came to Peru with a dream to
enter," Alejandro Naira, Peru's culture minister, told a news conference
on Monday, according to The Guardian. "The Japanese citizen has entered
with the head of our park so that he can do this before returning to his
country."
According to the news agency, Takayama
originally bought his ticket to visit the ruins in March.
Peru was forced’ to impose stricter
COVID-19 travel restrictions, including the abolition of all international
flights earlier this year, after the nation's rate of new COVID-19 cases, began
to decline in August. Later that month, it relaxed.
According to data compiled by Johns
Hopkins University, the country has begun to see an increase in its rate in
recent days, and is still facing its worst outbreak in South America.
"We are still in the midst of an
epidemic. It will be done with all the necessary care," Neyra added.
In Peru, more than 849,000 cases of Covid
19 have been recorded’ and 33,305 deaths have occurred since the onset of the
pandemic.
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