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A 58-year-old man died while exercising in a plaza in La Paternal

After 80 days of strict confinement, the Buenos Aires Government authorized, starting this Monday, all the inhabitants of the city of Buenos Aires to carry out nocturnal physical activity in parks and squares, between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. after an overflow that caused traffic restrictions to avoid crowding, A 58-year-old man who had gone running was found dead in a plaza in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Paternal..

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The body was found around 19, an hour before the allowed time to do sports activities such as running, cycling, hiking or rollers, next to the Parque La Isla playground, located at Avenida de los Constituyentes at 2700, according to Police sources reported to Infobae.

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Dressed in gym clothes, the man was found lying on his back with no signs of violence and with a car key, a watch, and a ring on it, demoting the hypothesis that it was an assault, according to investigators.

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The victim’s son, 24, He pointed out that his father had no cardiac history and that he went out for a run “from time to time,” but that with the mandatory quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic, he had to stop doing it..

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The City Police officers requested an SAME ambulance that transferred him to the Dr. Enrique Tornú Hospital, where the death was confirmed and the body was referred to the Judicial Morgue. “The best thing to do to see what happened to this man is to do an autopsy.”pointed out this morning Alberto Crescenti, the owner of the emergency service. The case for “death due to doubtful causes of crime” was left to the National Prosecutor’s Office for Criminal Investigation No. 3, in charge of the prosecutor Marcelo Daniel Roma.

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“Athletes, even if they are highly trained, when they return to their training they have to do something very calm. Put the human body, the machinery, back on track, “Crescenti warned about the return to physical activity after two and a half months of pause. “Soccer players when they return also do rather recreational exercises to gain muscle strength and regain respiratory capacity. If you start running and pump blood to the heart unexpectedly, until the mechanism is accommodated again, this can put the heart to a maximum effort and cause a heart attack or sudden death

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In the first days of the empowerment, the massive departure of porteños who took advantage to exercise in the squares and parks of the City, in several cases without respecting social distancing, alerted the Buenos Aires authorities, who established a series of restrictions on traffic to expand physical activity spaces.

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