This Saturday is fulfilled one hundred days of social, preventive and compulsory isolation, which started on March 20 last, when the president Alberto Fernández issued a decree by which all citizens were prohibited leave their homes with the exception of those activities called essential, in order to stop the spread of coronavirus in Argentina. Since then, life is different for everyone.
As of that announcement, the face-to-face school and university classes were suspended, measure that until the date of the date continues in force. Different was the case of banks, which at the beginning of the quarantine began closed, and are currently operating with shift modality and corresponding health protocols. Even in the new stage of more restrictive quarantine which will rule from July 1-17 for the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), will remain open.
The same applies to supermarkets, pharmacies, local stores, kiosks, and service stations that at all times were enabled to open , and will continue like this, in order for the citizens to be able to stock up on food. Another reality is the one lived by most of the businesses that are not dedicated to these items and they saw forced to close their blinds at the start of mandatory isolation.
The local retail stores had to wait a little longer to meet their customers again. After two months of isolation, Precisely in mid-May in the city of Buenos Aires, such as nurseries, jewelry stores, furniture stores, dealerships, bookstores, toy stores, flower shops, perfume shops, decoration shops, electrical materials, household appliances, musical instruments and bicycle stores, among other items, glimpsed a light at the end of the tunnel, and They were able to reopen with specific sanitary protocols. However, given the increase in coronavirus cases, From Wednesday, July 1, there will be reverse gear. The same applies to those clothing and shoe stores, which were one of the last to open, and will now have to lower their blinds again until further notice.
With respect to public transport, in that first instance of quarantine, President Alberto Fernández had announced that he was going to keep “only for use by those who are exempt from complying with the isolation “. With a more limited operating scheme and only for those passengers who have a special permit, implementing a battery of sanitary measures, such as the use of face masks, and who travel seated.
As there was a greater opening of activities, there was an increase in passengers, since more users had a permit enabled. However, as of Monday, the outlook will be different, as the head of state warned that all permits must be renewed, and in parallel there will be greater restrictions on the use of public transport in the AMBA.
On the other hand, in terms of exits, although initially only the so-called essential (purchase of food, medicine, dog walk) that are old, as the isolation evolved over time, new authorizations were granted to resume activities, which in the new quarantine in force from July, will be restricted again. However, it was gradually established in the different districts of the country as a new form of protection for going out. the obligatory use of a nose and mouth cover, as a chinstrap.
As for children, one of the groups most affected by the pandemic, after being confined to their homes for almost two months, finally the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta enabled Departures recreational on weekends that in the new phase of quarantine, they will remain. Not so, the Departures to carry out sports activities, which from Wednesday July 1, will be suspended.
Also, from Wednesday July 1 all circulation permits they will expire and must be requested again. There will be three types of special ratings for those who must comply with labor or health obligations (including cases of force majeure, those who must attend to relatives, separated mothers and fathers, etc.)
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