The President maintained that “we are moving towards the second recovery.” (Photo: Presidency)
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President Alberto Fernandez announced today a plan of “sustained and progressive openings” to recover activities “responsibly and carefully” in the framework of the pandemic and confirmed that 7 million second doses of vaccines will be administered in August against the coronavirus.
In a 12 minute recorded message, the president anticipates that -Starting tomorrow- there will be a “gradual expansion of the number of people who can meet” and also an advance in school attendance, facing the expiration this midnight of the DNU that currently governs.
“The more we vaccinate and take care of ourselves, the more we can sustain these achievements and the more we can advance in sustained and progressive openings””
“The more we vaccinate and take care of ourselves, the more we will be able to sustain these achievements and the more we will be able to advance in sustained and progressive openings,” said Fernndez in his message from the Casa Rosada, which was recorded last night.
Vaccines
In this context, the President affirmed that the goal for this month “is to increase the percentage of second doses, prioritizing people over 50 years of age, especially those who have had more time since the first dose”.
“In August we will apply more than 7 million second doses. In addition, we will continue to apply the first doses to adolescents between 12 and 17 who have been prioritized,” said the president.
Likewise, he anticipated that this month “again millions of vaccines will arrive in the country” and he recalled that “The combination that facilitates advancing in the second doses also begins.”
Openings
Regarding the new DNU that will be issued in the next few hours, Fernndez specifies that will expand “little by little the number of people who can meet”, which “allows us to advance with school attendance, another collective achievement” and pointed out that “the follow-up will be carried out jointly by the Ministry of Health and the Federal Council of Education.”
Then he said that The next step, when the situation allows it, will be the return of the public with progressive capacity to massive events, sports and open-air recitals., and pointed out that at that stage there may be group trips of older people who have the complete vaccination scheme.
“In the recovery plan for activities, when the conditions are met, we will enable tourism for people who have the complete vaccination scheme starting with countries in the region. And so we will continue to advance,” he said.
Economy, solidarity contribution and debt
In economic matters, the head of state assured that “This year it will grow by 7% and next year by 4/5%” and added: “2022 is going to be a much more optimistic year, thanks to all the measures that the Government took and with the reopening we will continue to grow to improve.”
“In 2019 there was a recession and today there is clearly a recovery in the economy. In the future, Argentina will repair the damage caused by the pandemic” and it will be possible to “reverse the crises of the previous pandemic,” the president mentioned in his message.
In another section, I praise the resources that were obtained from the “great fortunes” because they allowed him to “increase resources,” and he described as “successful” the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund to restructure the debt: “37 billion dollars that we owe were saved,” he said.
About the ongoing renegotiation with the IMFHe pointed out: “We are going to resolve, we are going to do it without pressure, without haste and taking care of the Argentines.”
Meanwhile, regarding the measures announced today, Fernández expressed that they can be adopted because there were “advances” and the objective was achieved “that the health system is not saturated.”
In this regard, he remarked that It is possible to enter a new stage “thanks to vaccination and other public policies that protected the income of families and the viability of companies.”
“We are among the 20 countries that vaccinated the most. The vaccine is the exit door from the pandemic.””
“We are among the 20 countries that vaccinated the most. The vaccine is the exit door from the pandemic. Every month there is less time for all of us to cross it. We are going to live the life we want responsibly again,” he said.
Fernndez: “The number of cases has decreased for ten consecutive weeks.” (Photo: Diego Izquierdo)
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Epidemiological situation
Regarding the epidemiological situation, it specifies that “for ten consecutive weeks the number of cases has decreased, for eight consecutive weeks deaths and hospitalizations in intensive care have decreased” and “Three weeks ago there was no urban agglomeration in epidemiological and sanitary alarm”.
Finally, he noted that the objective of “delaying the entry of the Delta variant to Argentina, which is already in 135 countries, is being achieved”.
“We have applied more than 33 million doses. We have distributed almost 39 million doses. All of these are collective achievements. All Argentines have achieved them with responsibility and solidarity, obtaining vaccines in different countries ”, he concluded.
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