The Governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, He held this Monday at a press conference that “The City of Buenos Aires is where there are more infections per 100 thousand inhabitants”, according to statistics made by the Ministry of Health.
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“The most densely populated area, which is the City of Buenos Aires, is where there are the most infections per 100,000 inhabitants. That is decreasing as the surface is bigger and the demography is different ”, the president explained during the press conference in which he presented a package of measures for the productive sectors.
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The expression seemed to be a response to the Buenos Aires government that hours before, through the Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, revealed that the will of Rodríguez Larreta’s management is to make the quarantine more flexible after July 17, the day the last stage of isolation ends. In the Buenosairean government they are more cautious with the idea of the opening because the number of contagions multiplies every day, although it maintains an average close to 1000 daily cases.
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“We hope to get to 17 (July) with the curve as controlled as possible, with the R below 1. If the strict quarantine is complied with appropriately, it will decrease contagiousness throughout the AMBA territory, “said Quirós.
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Kicillof marked a different posture. “The most affected area is that of Greater Buenos Aires. There an important part of the population of the province and the country meets. 13 million inhabitants live ”, he affirmed, seeking to mark the population density that exists in the suburbs and that hinders the advance of the flexibility of the quarantine.
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In this line, he stressed that the strongest incidence is occurring in the first cordon – the closest to the Federal Capital – where “there are 354 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.” Then, he added the situation of the other two cords that Greater Buenos Aires has.. “In the second cord there are 267 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while in the third there are 180 infected every 100,000”he stressed.
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“When one says that there are 354 cases for every 100 inhabitants, what we are saying is that for every 100 inhabitants there are 0.3 infections. In the City of Buenos Aires there is one infected every 100 inhabitants ”, was the way in which Kicillof highlighted the difference with what happens in Buenos Aires territory.
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“The current degree of affectation recognizes a difference according to the distance from the City of Buenos Aires. Because it is there, in the AMBA, where the virus most affected, due to the population density that exists, the way in which one lives and the number of inhabitants per square kilometers, ”he indicated. Then he explained that the only way to fight the virus is to take distance or isolation measures. Thus, he reaffirmed the decision to toughen the quarantine.
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On the other hand, he stressed that there are 4 million people living in the interior of Buenos Aires and that they are already living in a new normality. “In the province we have 35 districts complying with extreme isolation. And then there are 9 that are in Phase 2, 22 that comply with Phase 4 and 69 that are already in Phase 5 ″, Held.
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