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Coronavirus in Argentina. What can be done from today in the city and the suburbs


Among the new flexibilities for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, it is expected that a large part of the 70,000 neighborhood stores will reopen in all the neighborhoods that should have closed on July 1 when the quarantine tightened. Source: LA NACION – Credit: Hernán Zenteno

The city and the suburbs enter a new stage of reactivation of activities which will gradually expand over the next few weeks, as long as the Covid-19 pandemic numbers don’t put healthcare at risk.

This Monday, in a phase similar to that which prevailed in the last days of June, The neighborhood shops will reopen in the Buenos Aires district, the practice of outdoor sports is once again authorized and gastronomic activity will once again operate under the “to go” modality. In 35 Buenos Aires municipalities, meanwhile, the manufacturing industries, local businesses and lottery agencies raise their blinds.

During the first days, the residents of Buenos Aires will be able to attend local businesses as long as the completion of their DNI coincides with the date – for even day, even DNI; the same for odd numbers. Although the sale of clothing and footwear was excluded for Monday and Tuesday, on Wednesday it will be enabled in neighborhood shops and galleries. The administrators of educational institutions and notaries were also authorized to work from today.

With regard to individual physical activity, the period in which it can be practiced has been extended: it can be done every day from 18 to 10. And music streaming for the dissemination of cultural activities, such as music recitals, also returns today. Although it will be a week riddled with different reopens that will give the go-ahead to the locals to mobilize more, this weekend, especially today, many people were seen on the street who, with the pleasant temperature, went out for a walk, a bike ride or a walk even when the City’s proposed rules do not coincide with those activities.

Starting on Tuesday, the scheme for walks with children and adolescents will be expanded: in addition to weekends, departures will be extended to Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. without the restriction per day according to the DNI, but keeping the distance 500 meters from the residence address and lasting one hour.

The big news? After four months, the City will open the squares and parks that were with the gates closed or with seals that prevented access since mid-March. Of course: for the moment, they will not be a place to stay, nor will it be possible to use the playground area or the aerobic stations.


More recreational outings for children Source: LA NACION – Credit: Ignacio Sánchez

From next Tuesday, the City Government set out to reinforce traffic controls. So, The driver’s license will be retained for those motorists who circulate through the district and do not have the corresponding permit. Controls on public transport users will also continue to ensure that only essential workers travel. As has been applied for several weeks, people whose activities are enabled must travel by private transport, combis or private cars.

Public transportation should only be used by essential workers

New openings

On Wednesday the Buenos Aires stores selling clothes and footwear will open their doors, according to the completion of the DNI; as long as The opening of the temples will be authorized for administrative tasks, online celebrations and individual prayer with a maximum of ten people. Also, car washes, dog walkers and the toy industry will return that day – a sector that had expressed concern in recent weeks about the proximity of the Children’s Day and the possible lack of merchandise in the warehouses. On Saturday the 25th, moving companies can resume their activity, only on weekends.

“This week is a caress for the SMEs that survived these long days, an encouragement. Let’s not forget that 24,000 small and medium-sized companies closed permanently and we have to continue fighting to stop it happening, “emphasized the president of the Federation of Commerce and Industry of the city of Buenos Aires (Fecoba), Fabián Castillo, to THE NATION, after a new Crisis Committee meeting of the entity formed to face this reality.

The week of July 27 to August 3, in the city, will be characterized by the relaxation of certain activities and the reopening of some commercial items and services that, since the beginning of the strictest quarantine, had never reopened to the public. , such as hairdressing salons and face-to-face psychological care, among other. The head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, He anticipated that by the beginning of next month “over 90% of businesses will reopen.”

The schedule prepared by the Buenos Aires Government consists of six stages that will be applied as long as there is no risk in health care in the face of an uncontrolled increase in cases. “It will depend on the evolution of health data, the R number, how many cases come from the Detect plan, the occupation of intensive care beds, the respirators. All this will tell us if we can move forward or if we must go backward,” he said. Rodríguez Larreta in dialogue with LA NACIÓN.

In the province of Buenos Aires

“It will be an intermittent quarantine”, was the way he chose the Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof last Thursday, at a press conference with President Alberto Fernández and Rodríguez Larreta, to announce the measures that would take effect from today in the municipalities that make up the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and that they are more committed to the advancement of the coronavirus. “It can be sustained to the extent that infections do not return, that the use of beds does not increase,” the provincial president warned at the time.

Starting this Monday, 35 Buenos Aires districts pass to phase three -the same that was active before the quarantine was tightened- and all manufacturing industries will reopen. While on Wednesday it will be the turn of local shops and lottery agencies to reopen to the public, always under strict prevention protocols. The sale of clothing, footwear and toys must be done outside the store, they indicated from the Buenosairean Government.

First stage of flexibility in the City

Monday 20

  • Neighborhood, neighborhood shops, neighborhood galleries (excludes clothing and footwear) with ID according to the day (even number, even day; odd number, odd days)
  • Gastronomy: to go
  • Administrative of educational institutions
  • Individual physical activity from 18 to 10, by completion of ID number
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  • Music streaming

The Federation of Commerce will place these preventive signs on the premises
The Federation of Commerce will place these preventive signs on the premises Credit: Fecoba

Tuesday 21

  • Boys recreational outings: they are extended to Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., without restriction per day according to the DNI, 500 meters from the residence address, with social distancing and use of masks for over 6 years and maximum duration of 60 minutes per day.
  • Opening of squares and parks without permanence, without the use of a playground or aerobic posts.

Wednesday 22

  • Neighborhood shops and neighborhood galleries are added to neighborhood clothing and footwear shops; according to DNI termination for clients.
  • Worship: opening for administrative tasks, online celebrations and individual prayer with capacity and limit (maximum of 10 people at the same time in the same temple).
  • Opening of car washes.
  • Authorized dog walkers.
  • Authorization for the toy industry

Saturday 25

  • Removals enabled, only on weekends

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