Governor Axel Kicillof announced that the 35 municipalities of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area will advance to phase 3 of social isolation, preventive and compulsory, on an “intermittent” basis, starting next Monday. In this way, the i will work againManufacturing industries, removals, shops and hairdressing salons, among other items, in a staggered way. “The contagion rate was reduced and we managed to maintain the capacity of the health system“said the provincial president in the Quinta de Olivos, along with the president, Alberto Fernández, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, and the governors Gerardo Morales (Jujuy), Jorge Capitanich (Chaco) and Arabela Carreras (Río Negro), who were in remote.
In this context, from the Monday all manufacturing industries will resume their activities and on Wednesday local businesses and official gaming agencies. While on Monday the 27th they will join removals and real estate, legal services, health professionals, home maintenance and hair salons. It should be noted that the Buenos Aires authorities announced that this will remain so as long as the contagion curve “does not rise more than expected and forces a return backwards.”
“It will depend on the effort of each one, that we do not mess up”, Kicillof graphed, and highlighted: “There was no police or municipal agent next to each one of the people of Buenos Aires, but conscience, which allowed us to get here, without regretting a worse situation.” However, the Buenosairean governor showed moderation in the advances and reiterated that “it is not true that we are beating him, the coronavirus kills people and we don’t know how to kill the virus. “
On the other hand, Kicillof detailed the current situation in the province of Buenos Aires, where there are 65 inland municipalities with activities in phase 5 and low contagion density, and pointed out that the situation in the suburbs is very different. In this regard, he specified that “in the third cord there is one case every 400 people; in the second, one every 260 and in the first, one case every 75”. He also evaluated that “the objectives were reached” during the strict quarantine and, in that sense, he said that “the beds were increased from 1,590 that we had when we assumed, to 4,100 beds.”
On this subject, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health elaborated, Daniel Gollan, at a press conference that he led hours later in the Golden Hall of the Government House of the province. “The percentage of people who get sick and need an intensive care bed is falling. This allows us to recalculate the times for the collapse of the system, “he stressed.
As for the numbers, the figures handled by the Health portfolio indicate thatThe occupation of “intensive care” beds in the AMBA is 57.7%, while in the rest of the province it is 47.6%. As a result of this, he stressed the importance of having tightened the quarantine between July 1 and 17, as it allowed them to “control the growth of cases.”
The result of this was also seen in the incorporation of medical supplies. “At this time we have enough in stock to protect all health workers here until november “Gollan said.
In turn, the head of the Buenos Aires Cabinet, Carlos Bianco, announced a modification in the opening of the particular activities of each municipality. It will no longer be the mayors who make the proposal to the provincial government and this to the national government. From now on, the Buenosairean authorities will enable a “package of activities”, previously approved by the national authorities, and “the intendants will be able to define if they apply it or not”Bianco explained. “It is very good news for everyone, it does not imply that we are going to take our eyes off, but the implementation will be more efficient,” he added.
Faced with the rumors that ran in recent days, the Buenos Aires official clarified: “It is not that from now on activities are allowed or services are released forever, it is a test stage to see what happens with cases and the doubling time. We can go backwards”. And he stressed that public transport will continue to be only for essential workers and that the companies that open must guarantee their own transport to their employees.
Bianco on several occasions insisted that this phase is “a test stage” and that “at any time you can back down” if the cases continue to rise and the health system is at risk of collapse. On closing, he recalled the importance of each activity complying with the corresponding protocols and asked that “don’t get together for Friend’s Day physically”.
A phase 4 will advance “those municipalities that in any of the last two weeks had more than 10 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants per week”, the Buenosairean authorities explained. In this stage, allotments for private construction works, consumption in gastronomic premises, leisure outlets, local businesses with customer income and domestic service are added. Although all this sounds very distant in the AMBA, the most optimistic do not lose hope of continuing to advance.
Report: Antonio Riccobene
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