Today, Russia Channel showed a video clip showing the Argentine authorities closing the slums, as they put iron fences around them due to the outbreak of Coruna virus, and a neighborhood was quarantined after scores of new HIV infections were discovered. Residents say they are under families and cannot go out, enter or work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0MiyD1DrVU
On the other hand, it was Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced last Saturday the extension of compulsory public isolation in the capital, Buenos Aires, until June 7 after the city witnessed a steady increase in the number of cases of coronavirus in recent days..
Argentina imposed public isolation on March 20 and was due to end on Sunday, although officials eased restrictions in some areas of the country.
Argentina had exceeded ten thousand confirmed cases of the Corona virus last Friday, after recording the highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic..
Government data showed 10,649 cases, an increase of 718 from the previous day, mostly in the capital, Buenos Aires. The number of deaths reached 433 cases.
The confirmed incidence of corona infection increased steadily in the past week.
Argentina has imposed mandatory public isolation in most regions since March 20 and also applies one of the world’s most stringent travel restrictions by banning the sale and purchase of airline tickets until September.
The government extended public isolation until May 24 in some areas of the country, while easing some limited restrictions on movement and the business sector. The authorities had previously extended public isolation three times.
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