News Now | AdvertisingBoynos Ayres – Argentina (AFP)
Thousands of people in Argentina demonstrated in the capital, Buenos Aires, and other cities, on Monday, to protest against the quarantine measures imposed by the government to confront the emerging Corona virus, at a time when the country is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of infections.
The rally in Buenos Aires was organized in response to a call launched on social media, with the support of opponents of President Alberto Fernandez, after the government announced last Friday the extension of quarantine measures in the Buenos Aires region until August 30, a region where ninety percent of the cases recorded in Argentina are concentrated.
Slogans against the quarantine measures were mixed with others opposing judicial reform launched by the authorities. The demonstrators are calling for measures to counter insecurity and corruption.
Protester Gustavo Alvarez accused the government of using quarantine measures to impose control over the population. “They want to control us through disease and stone,” he told AFP. “People should revolt.”
The demonstrators who wore masks but did not keep a distance between each other chanted “freedom, freedom”.
The cluster in Buenos Aires is not the first of its kind, but it is the largest in numerical terms. Similar protests were also held in major cities in Argentina on Monday.
The protests come as President Fernandez launched a speech on Monday, calling for all Argentines to unite in the face of the epidemic.
According to the latest toll, Argentina recorded 294,556 new cases of coronavirus and 5,750 deaths.
And seven days ago, the number of new daily infections has exceeded 5,000.
On the twentieth of March, the government imposed a quarantine on all Argentine territory, but it later returned and eased it in most parts of the country.
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