03/09/2020 - 17:26
- Clarín.com
- Society
The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak keeps the world in suspense and shakes the global economy, but the epidemic hit more countries. For health authorities in Argentina there are only eight countries with active transmission of the virus that are risky for those traveling and returning to the country: China (this new strain originated in the city of Wuhan), South Korea, Japan, Iran, Italy, Spain, France and Germany . The United States is still excluded.
Those who return to the country from some of those eight sites should not attend work or school for 14 days. Therefore, the Ministry of Labor granted an exceptional salary license for public and private sector workers who have recently traveled abroad.
On Monday morning, the case of a Spanish tourist who was isolated in La Plata after presenting compatible symptoms was ruled out in the country. In the afternoon, two women who arrived in the country from Italy were transferred to the Zonal Hospital of Ezeiza, where they remain isolated. On the other hand, another passenger who arrived on a Copa Airlines flight showed a negative result and retired by his own means to his home.
So far, in Argentina there are 12 confirmed cases of the disease, including a deceased. This is a 64-year-old man who had been traveling in France, and who died last Saturday at the Argerich hospital.
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday that the "threat of a pandemic became very real" by the new coronavirus, which has contaminated 110,000 people in the world "Now that the coronavirus has spread to In many countries, the threat of a pandemic became very real. But it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled, " Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press conference in Geneva.
"We are not at the mercy of the virus," since "the decisions we are all making can influence the trajectory" of the epidemic, he said. China continues to lead in the number of infected with more than 80 thousand cases. In Europe, more than 15 thousand people were infected and the most affected country is Italy, where there are 16 million people isolated by the outbreak.
On the other hand, the Pan American Health Organization will send support missions to countries in the region that "carry a greater risk" due to the epidemic of the new coronavirus, including Haiti and Venezuela, "authorities of the agency said next week. The list also includes Suriname, Guyana, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia and Paraguay , as well as the islands of the Eastern Caribbean.