The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) will begin July in phase 1. Virtually all the flexibilities that had been arranged since the beginning of the social, preventive and compulsory isolation (ASPO) to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak and prevent a sanitary collapse will be tightened. , as explained by the president Alberto Fernández. But what will happen in Tucumán from Wednesday?
In the Government House they wait mainly for the decree of necessity and urgency in which the conditions will be informed in which the ASPO will be extended. Although through the announcement on Friday the whole country knew what will happen in the area with the highest growth rate of covid-19 cases -along with Chaco-, no details were provided if any type of measure would be available in the rest of the provinces.
The Minister of Government and Justice, Carolina Vargas AignasseHe pointed out that the members of the Emergency Operating Committee (COE) will meet today to discuss how this new extension of the quarantine will be addressed. However, he anticipated that due to the current situation of the province there are no reasons to back down and tighten the flexibilities already arranged. “According to how we come, I think that we are not going to take any significant measure; to go backwards, surely not, unless something unexpected comes out, “said the official. In this sense, she elaborated: “As for where we are: due to an economic issue, we do not want to close anything; we have no reason to do so. “
As “something unexpected”, Vargas Aignasse referred to the situation in Monteros, where two women who returned on June 7 from Buenos Aires in the “group of infections” tested positive for coronaviruses after more than two weeks. The swabs of the 43 contacts these people had were negative, but preventive monitoring will be maintained for 14 days. In any case, the minister said that, if there were positives at that time, specific measures would probably be taken in that department.
Well insulated
With no detected cases of covid-19 by community circulation, Tucumán focuses its attention on the people from Mexico who return to their payments. To reduce risks, from the Ministry of Health that heads Rossana Chahla Today it will request the COE to increase to 14 days the residence time of the returnees without symptoms in the shelters or hotels arranged for this purpose.
Sources of Health affirmed that the request will be made due to the growth of the rate of infections in Argentina, whose main focus is in the AMBA and in Chaco. They explained that while the cases continue to rise, there may be repercussions in other districts of the country.
Currently, all the people who return to the province (50,000 since the beginning of the quarantine) must comply with the isolation in the shelters arranged by the Ministry of Health or in a hotel that they must pay if they prefer more comforts. There, after about five or six days, they are usually swabbed to see if the returnees developed the virus. If positive, they are transferred to a hospital preventively until discharge (two consecutive negative tests). If not, they are sent home to continue absolute confinement until the 14 days are complete.
300 operating beds
In addition, all the modular hospitals that were set up to reinforce the health response will be activated in the first days of July. From the Health portfolio they explained that because the stay in out-of-hospital centers will double, the turnover of people will be slower. For this reason they will have to expand the capacity of the out-of-hospital system.
In total there are four tents with a capacity of 300 beds that were deployed in Banda del Río Salí (with capacity for 120 people), Alderetes (60), Tafí Viejo (60) and Aguilares (60).
From the health portfolio, in addition, they expressed very concerned about the relaxed behavior that society is having in this phase of distancing. It was indicated in this regard that they will continue with awareness campaigns on the streets with health educators.
Return: only in cases of force majeure
The authorities of the Emergency Operating Committee (COE) recalled that returns to the province are only authorized for reasons of force majeure. Authorization must be requested from the COE 72 hours before leaving. The Province has established for two weeks that only vehicles with up to seven seats can be returned. Once in the province, the taxi driver is escorted to the bus terminal. There, a check-up is carried out on each person and they are isolated according to their state of health.
The figures: in tucumán there are 24 active cases
Tucumán did not add new cases of coronavirus yesterday and the number of infected remains at 72. Of that total, 24 people still have the active virus, while 43 recovered and five died. Of the 17 departments, there were already cases in 13 of them, the most affected being the capital with 34 cases, followed by Yerba Buena, with 11. Until now, citizens with the virus have not been detected in Tafí del Valle, Leales, Graneros and Juan Baptist Alberdi.
Soccer: meeting with field owners
The Minister of Government and Justice, Carolina Vargas Aignasse, announced that today a meeting with the owners of the 5 soccer fields is scheduled at 12 to try to move forward with a possible flexibility of activity. Before the closing of the AMBA announced by Nación, the possibility that the courts would be reopened this week had slipped. The Government House will await the scope of the decree to set a reopening date.
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