05/21/2020 - 19:25
- Clarín.com
- Society
This Thursday, the Ministry of Health reported another 13 deaths and 648 infections of coronavirus, in the last 24 hours.
In the daily report that is released in the morning, the portfolio reported the death of a 73-year-old man who lived in the province of Buenos Aires. The main affected age groups of the registered cases correspond to people between 20 and 59 years old, with the average age being 39 years.
While eagerly awaiting the decision of President Alberto Fernández on how social, preventive and compulsory isolation will continue after May 24, the residents of Buenos Aires insist that the City must back down with the opening of non-essential stores .
The Buenosairean vice minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak , assured this Thursday that it is necessary "to restrict the use of public transport to avoid community transmission" of the coronavirus and considered that "from the health point of view" it is necessary "to go back with respect to the authorization of the non-essential trade "to avoid infection.
After weeks of claims, some non-essential items returned to operation during the quarantine in the City. This is the case of bookstores, flower shops, toy stores, bicycle shops, furniture stores and a long etcetera. Other sectors, on the other hand, look at it from the outside: they are the clothing stores, the shoe stores, the hairdressers and the car washes, which should remain closed but, in some cases, they secretly reopen, out of desperation to see how savings vanish and debt grows .
The Government Control Agency (AGC) has already closed 39 non-excepted Buenos Aires stores , including 15 clothing and footwear stores, 12 car washes and five hairdressers, but it is estimated that more are in operation.
April was the first month that felt the full impact of the coronavirus quarantine on wholesale prices (IPIM), which decreased 1.3% compared to March, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec).
Coronavirus through, in March the industrial activity registered a fall of 13.9% year-on-year and -16.8% in the measurement against February. The survey by the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) shows that this is the largest monthly retraction in the series (which started in 1995), which takes production to its lowest level since December 2004 . Thus, in the first quarter of the year a decrease of 4.9% was accumulated compared to the same period of 2019.
