With solid expectations that the summer season will register a strong tourist movement in the main destinations of the Buenos Aires coast, with Mar del Plata at the helm, the Minister of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires, Nicolas Kreplak, anticipated a battery of sanitary measures that the provincial government will deploy in the city to guarantee the enjoyment of millions of Argentines safely.
This season, to which Governor Axel Kicillof projected as “stunning”, it won’t be necessary process a special permit to spend the summer in Mar del Plata, but yes -from this Tuesday, December 21- the health pass, the great novelty in relation to the previous summer. And for this, it will seek to strengthen not only testing but fundamentally vaccination against the coronavirus: “There will be a very strong presence because what we want is that no one is left without enjoying any activity”, Kreplak assured exclusively to LA CAPITAL.
On the coast, in gazebos when going down to the beach or when walking through the Peatonal and other streets, in truck-hospitals, in neighborhoods and gastronomic corridors health agents will be present to strengthen prevention, bring testing closer and facilitate vaccination, It will be free for the first and second doses for all those over 3 years of age, both for residents of Mar del Plata and tourists from any jurisdiction visiting the city.
For that, the provincial sanitary portfolio already has planned “reinforce the number of vaccinators, with people from other localities who will be sent to the coast, where the demand and the movement will be concentrated ”.
In the first place, the minister confirmed that this summer the Tourist Attention Service (SAT), for which “the air fleet was recovered” and “was equipped like never before” (with a tomograph, more personnel and a marked heliport) to the Lezama Prompt Attention Unit (UPA) to “accidentally cover” the routes that connect to Buenos Aires with Mar del Plata.
“Modular hospitals are added to the SAT, in addition to all the investment made in infrastructure at the Oscar Allende Hospital in Mar del Plata and in hospitals in other towns on the coast to enhance the capacity for diagnosis and care, thinking about Covid and everything else, “Kreplak said.
In a few days the Sanitary Sea, initiative that contemplates “Gazebos on the beaches, truck-hospitals that will be visiting different points doing prevention, promotion, testing and Covid vaccination”, the official anticipated and also pointed out that “they will actively work in the area of Mental Health around substance use with the bowling alleys and the emergency system.”
In the midst of the increase in Covid-19 cases that has been registered in the previous summer, it will seek to facilitate access to testing. During the season “We will have the capacity to test in truck-hospitals and also in gazebos”, in addition to the points that are currently operating in the city.
The tests on the beach and in sectors of massive tourist concurrence “we already implemented them last year and they worked very well, providing a quick result,” said Kreplak and announced that “This year they will see the gazebos on the beaches, in the Pedestrian and at various points along the coast.”
Health pass
The health pass that the Province of Buenos Aires will implement throughout the Buenos Aires territory as of this Tuesday, December 21 It will not only be accompanied by a control policy, but also by strengthening vaccination.
“The fixed vaccination posts will continue to operate and we are going to build a few more mobile units, because as the health pass is implemented, what we want is that no one miss any activity”, assured the Minister of Health.
Along the same lines, he maintained: “We seek that everyone who goes to Mar del Plata and the coast in general can be vaccinated”, In other words, the vaccination will not only be for neighbors but also for people from other jurisdictions, “So that they can enjoy the restaurants, recitals, events and -definitely- a good vacation safely ”.
Kreplak trusts that “The health pass will give a very good result” And although there is some reluctance in some sectors regarding the application of this measure, the minister said: “If we all agree and do not try to make a political banner with that, it will work well. Let’s think that it is something that applies in the United States and in Europe; It is not a Buenos Aires invention and it has worked very well everywhere ”.
“95% of the population will want to be vaccinated and that helps us as a society, because the vaccine is not an individual problem, it is a collective issue.. The vaccinated person is less contagious. The more vaccinated people we have, the less chance we will have of getting infected ”, he stressed.
Control
For the application of the health pass, control will be key. “We are preparing a great audit, but it is not the objective to carry out a police check “, repaired the minister, who appeals fundamentally to the individual consciousness and also to the responsibility of traders and entrepreneurs to demand from people the documentation that certifies the fact of being vaccinated.
Along the same lines, he assured that in massive events “The control is going to be blunt” although “we know that it will be difficult due to the large number of people who attend, especially in spaces that have several entrance doors.”
Followed, marked the differences between the health pass that the Province will implement and the one announced more recently by the national government, as of January 1: “We in the Province in addition to massive events, we put it in closed places. The Nation pass is only for mass events and bowling alleys, which is very good because it is a national measure, but we are thinking that in the Province we are going to have a large movement of people, especially on the Atlantic Coast, and that is why we are also going to apply in restaurants, bars, clubs, gyms and to do some paperwork ”.
Beyond all, the minister stressed the “ease” of having the pass, since the applications can be used My Argentina The Get vaccinated PBA, as well also the vaccination card O well the cardboard that is delivered in the vaccination centers and that they state the doses that each person received.
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