A total of 23 people died and 2,401 were infected with coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the report communicated this Saturday night by the Ministry of Health, which specifies that the number of deaths since the start of the pandemic amounts to 1,207 and those infected at 57,744.
Today’s registry of infections places the province of Buenos Aires with 1,423 cases and the City of Buenos Aires with 849, districts that concentrate more than 90% of those infected.
These jurisdictions are followed, in number of cases, by Chaco with 52; Neuquén, 16; Córdoba, 15; Río Negro, 14; Entre Ríos, 12; Mendoza, 6; Santa Fe, 5; Jujuy, 3; Salta, 2, and Corrientes, Formosa, La Rioja, and Tucumán with a new case.
In dialogue with Télam, Minister Ginés González García said that the advance of the virus in the AMBA and the absence of a vaccine and specific medication against the coronavirus, led the government to determine a new and greater restriction on the movement of people in that region to avoid “fatal consequences for not having intensive care beds”.
“We seek to manage the quarantine in such a way that the number of cases is always controllable and administered. We did it from the first day, and I say we did it because it was all the Argentine people, we did it among all,” he said.
“When we began to notice that we had community circulation in a megapolis like AMBA, we began to think differently; so we came out with the Detect Program,” said Ginés.
“We also noticed that the progress of specific hospitalization began to be very exponential. That implied that we had to do something so that in 25 or 30 days what we do not want to happen does not happen: that there is no person who, because of not having a intensive therapy, respirators and everything else you need ends up with a fatal consequence, “he said.
For his part, Transport Minister Mario Meoni assured that the national government aims to reduce circulation in the AMBA by between 200 and 300 thousand people a day and is evaluating a tool to block SUBE cards for non-essential workers.
“In the next few days we can have a technological tool, but we are discussing whether to automatically block or block it after use,” explained Meoni, about the use of the SUBE card.
The official pointed out that what is sought “is to return to the 550,000 passengers who traveled the AMBA by public transport in the first two weeks of quarantine.”
“Today we are between 900,000 and one million passengers per day on public transport and with these measures we want to reduce those figures to 600 or 700 thousand per day, so as to reduce the circulation of between 200 or 300 thousand people,” he said.
Meanwhile, the head of the Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero, said today that the Government is “willing to pay all the political costs to save lives” and acknowledged that “there are expressions of fatigue” over the extension of social isolation in the AMBA, but warned that “there is an acceleration of the circulation of the coronavirus” in that region and “experts advise us to take these measures”.
Meanwhile, the essential workers of the AMBA must process a new circulation permit, between Monday and Tuesday, to be able to move from July 1.
As officially reported, workers who fulfill essential tasks and who have residence in the AMBA will have time from Monday at 0 AM and until Tuesday at 11:59 PM, to renew their respective CUHC (Unique Circulation Enablers Certificate).
At the international level, it was evident that the virus does not give up in some of the most populous countries in the world, with another record of cases in the overwhelming United States and a sustained increase in India, Brazil, Chile and other Latin American nations , the new epicenter of a pandemic that aims to exceed 10 million infected and 500,000 deaths in the coming days.
The other side of this critical situation was once again shown by the countries of Europe, fully dedicated to the reopening of activities with the tempting summer ahead, although several of them – like Spain – continue to act quickly on new sources of contagion by detecting early detection and isolation necessary to prevent the spread of the virus.
Spain and Italy were able to show today figures of three and eight deaths respectively from the disease, very good news for two of the European countries hardest hit by Covid-19.
Instead, the United States beat its own record for new infections for the second consecutive day, with more than 45,000, and remains the country most affected by the pandemic with nearly 2.5 million cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University count. , while registering regrowths in the southern and western regions of the country.
To the south, Mexico also continued to show high figures today in the damage count caused by the pandemic, to such an extent that with 25,779 deaths it has one of the highest mortality rates (12.4%) on the planet.
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