Rome, 25 October 2021 – Residents of Easter Island they say no to the return of tourists. Yesterday the referendum raised the question of whether or not to reopen to tourism after a year and a half of isolation due to the Covid pandemic. The majority of the approximately 10,000 inhabitants, 67% to be precise, spoke out against the reopening.
But the island, 3,700 km west of the coast of Chile, in the middle of the Pacific, it receives a large part of its income from tourism, with visitors coming from all over the world to see the megaliths of mysterious origin. And perhaps for this reason the result is not binding. In fact, the final decision will be taken first by the health authorities, and then by the political ones.
Easter Island registered during the pandemic eight cases Covid-19, and no new infections have been reported since September 2020. There were no deaths.
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