Quarantine in Peru (March 16 to?)

After a lot of rumors about the situation in terms of Corona we decided to cross the border from Bolivia to Peru on Sunday, 15th of March. For this we drove from La Paz via Copacabana at the lake Titicaca to the small village of Yungoyo in Peru. This was just in time as on Monday evening Peru closed all borders for 15 days and announced the state of emergency. According to this everybody has to be in domesticated quarantine. On a beach outside the village we meet two other overlander couples (one from France and one from Germany) , which we knew already from earlier times at Salar de Uyuni. On Tuesday, the other two overlander couples went on with their journey in the direction of Puno. Due to some abdominal influenza in our case, we decided to stay at least for one more day. Some hours later, the German overlanders already came back, when realizing while buying grocery stuff, that moving in the country in the actual situation is not adequate. Consequently, later in the day the police showed up, informing us that we have to be quarantined in a hostel in the village and the locals are afraid of us European people in their neighborhood. Europeans are supposed to be all infected. With some explanation that we left Europe already 8 months and therefore long ago before the outbreak of Corona and a talkback with their boss, we were allowed to stay in our motorhome-quarantine, but just if we move to another beach some kilometers away. Consequently, we moved with two cars to another beach. During the day we got notice that the French couple was stopped by military control on the road and brought back to Yungoyo to the police station, where they had to stay in from with their car. In the village they were subjected to hostility of the locals and the police were overwhelmed with the situation not knowing what to do with them. After 24 hours the French couple was escorted by the police to our place.

Since that we are staying here together with 3 cars. Further police and also ambulancia showed up once in a while, most friendly and helpful, but obviously also quite overwhelmed with the situation like us. Meanwhile we are accepted and today (March 23) they even brought as water and food, to protect both us and the locals from getting into contact. All borders in South America are closed, there is a state of emergency, a ban of going out, no commercial flights are allowed and the EU governments try to organize return flights for stranded tourists. The known numbers of infections are lower in South America than in Europe and the local governments want to maintain this situation and are very rigid. For the moment we have to stay here at the beach, which could be worse regarding the surroundings.

It's not clear if we can go on with our own car once in a while to a country, where we can ship it back (Ecuador or Columbia), or if we have and could get a flight back home in the near future, leaving the car somewhere.