The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) will maintain the quarantine as it applies today, without further opening or new restrictions by the progression of the coronavirus, for another two weeks, that is, until August 16. This will be announced at noon Alberto Fernández, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof, that yesterday afternoon they met alone for more than two hours at the Olivos presidential residence.
On a day like yesterday with record deaths, 153 throughout the country, the main concern of the President, the head of the Buenos Aires government and the Buenos Aires governor are coronavirus outbreaks that, as they detected, arise from social gatherings, between family or friends, that contravene epidemiological recommendations and escape the radar of state controls.
To prevent this, the citizen awareness campaigns, in line with what the expert committee recommended yesterday to Fernandez.“We can make sure that public transport is not saturated and that the protocols in factories and shops are followed. But we do not have many more tools to ensure that a group of friends does not get together to drink mate or play the game. We can only appeal to individual responsibility, “he told THE NATION an official who spent yesterday afternoon at the Olivos residence.
Today, with the expert committee, we analyze the evolution of the last few weeks and note with concern the increase in cases and deaths from Covid.19 Reopening implies a higher risk of contagion. So we must take care of ourselves more than ever and stay home as much as possible.
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& – Alberto Fernández (@alferdez)
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The City Health Minister, Fernán Quirós, He went one step further: in the conference he gave yesterday morning, he suggested that if the social encounter is inevitable, it should be held in open places. “The safest places are the most open. That the day is beautiful, as it is today and that people take advantage within the current regulations is never a problem,” he said.
Intensive care
The decision to maintain the Phase 3 of quarantine unchanged is due to the fact that, although the number of daily cases is greater than that registered at the beginning of this stage of isolation, the level of occupation of the intensive care units (ICU) it does not increase at the same rate as the contagion curve. At Buenos Aires metropolitan area (AMBA),that indicator reached 64.5% today, only half a percentage point more than two weeks ago. In the same period, coronavirus patients admitted to the ICU across the country increased from 793 to 1,076, 36 percent.
This evolution in the level of occupation, a key factor in keeping the case-fatality rate below 1.85 percent, makes it possible to avoid a reversal, as was considered in the province, but it does not enable a larger opening, as it was intended in the City.
“If it opens more, the risk is going to be higher and the cases are going to rise faster. We must continue working so that the plateau does not become a peak,” he told THE NATION an official of the Casa Rosada. What Fernández, Larreta and Kicillof talked about only came out in part, because they talked without witnesses. Today, starting at 12, they will share a new announcement in the Olivos residence, this time without the presence of other governors.
With the opening of non-essential activities in the metropolitan area, such as hairdressing salons and services of liberal professions, the stages of Phase 3 They are already complete both in the city and in the province. To advance in the opening of premises in large shopping centers, it would be necessary to advance towards Phase 4. Simultaneously with the extension to be announced for the AMBA, other provinces maintain stricter quarantines by the appearance of focused outbreaks, how Jujuy and part of La Pampa.
The number of occupation of UTI it is greater in the City of Buenos Aires than in the province. In the Capital, this indicator reaches 68.4 percent, if the public and private subsectors are added. In Greater Buenos Aires, the figure is 62.1 percent. But in the Kicillof administration they warn that what happens in the Capital is only a foretaste of what happens later in Buenos Aires territory.
This morning, the governor held a meeting with the mayors of the conurbano, accompanied by the Chief of Cabinet, Carlos Bianco, and the Minister of Health, Daniel Gollán. “We reaffirm our idea of intermittent quarantine,” said Kicillof, before the communal heads of the ruling party and the opposition. “We all work together with the same data and we are working in solidarity with the City, we are on the same page,” he added.
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