There is currently 63.6% of the target population currently vaccinated in Isla de Pascua (versus 89.2% at the national level). Certainly the local people doesn't want to get vaccinated as the majority believe they are better off without tourism and they are now trying to be self-sustainable with a more barter-focused local economy. Also they don't find necessary the vaccine as there are virtually no cases in the island.
However, the major said he is aware that the current situtation is not sustainable in the long term and he wants to reopen in December: (Google Translate, sorry)
"In recent weeks, the mayor of Rapa Nui has met with local authorities to refine details about the safe return to the island. “We are already working on a protocol. We have 11 safe return flights and no case of contagion because we apply it. We are in complicity so that this virus does not enter the island. That is why we have called it a safe return, because we have dedicated ourselves to writing and testing protocols, "said Edmunds.
Now they are working on a definitive document, in connection with the airline that arrives in said territory "so that our protocol is required before getting on the plane," said the municipal authority. "We are going to be pending for at least a couple of years to follow up on the person: where they are staying, who will be their guide, where they will eat, so that if a contagion arises we already know who they are, it is done traceability and is communicated to the health authority ”, he explained."
https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/17692...es-de-covid-19
By the way, as of October 1th, foreigners are allowed to enter Chile as long you are vaccinated
