Yesterday we showed you the activity at the northern border which wasn't exactly brisk. Up to 4:00 pm under 500 persons had crossed.
Well, this afternoon at the Benque Viejo border things looked dead!
Except for a few stragglers - there were only a few stragglers coming in and out.
The office ring charge of immigration confirmed that in the first two days of the bride being opened 330 persons have come in and 337 have gone out.
But, many of those who crossed the Belize side didn't necessarily go into Melchor. That's because they have to take a 160 Belize dollar COVID test on the Guatemalan side - and it has to be negative for them to cross over.
For most of them that isn't worth it - and many just stay to drink in Champon, or - as some told us - they choose to just skip across the river and enter Guatemala illegally.
Talks are underway between health authorities on both sides to remove the testing requirement ton both sides for persons who are only staying for the day in Melchor or Benque Viejo.
