Daniel Gollán: "With the Trump or Bolsonaro doctrine, Argentina would have between 25 and 30 thousand deaths from coronavirus"

08/03/2020 - 12:32

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Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollán, defended this Monday the Province's health strategy in the face of the pandemic and assured that "with the doctrine of (Donald) Trump or (Jair) Bolsonaro, Argentina today would have between 25 and 30 thousand dead" by coronavirus.

"The comparisons are sometimes absurd, but we have to take dimension of things. If we followed the Bolsonaro or Trump doctrine, today we would have between 25 and 30 thousand dead . We have to make an effort, nothing more," he said.

The passage of COVID-19 has so far caused more than 157,000 deaths in the United States and 94,000 in Brazil , where the authorities resisted taking strict quarantine measures in favor of further opening up the economy. They are the two countries where the virus hit the hardest.

Gollán also stated that sprouts are not explosive again in Europe "because there are a lot of things closed and because when new cases appear, it closes much more."

"There the virus is not allowed to do what it wants. They do the same as here, only they have already gone through a very high curve . Strong measures are taken. For example, not return to classes," added the official.

At a press conference from La Plata, where a new epidemiological report on the evolution of the coronavirus was presented, Gollán warned that "normality will not return until there is a vaccine."

"We are not even going to be able to release everything when the curve declines. The openings are based on the fact that the magnitude of the people who are circulating have a degree of immunization. But that happens in Europe on the basis that many activities are still slowed down. Yes I get contagious for a few days and I open schools, a disaster strikes me, because that population is not immunized. It happens in all the cities of the world. In New York, for example, they are not normal. "

And he added, in that sense: "Opening schools is a hellish logistical and economic deployment. We do not return to normal until there is a vaccine. That is the reality. This is how the world will be, not the province of Buenos Aires."

Finally, the government minister of Axel Kicillof insisted on the importance of avoiding social gatherings in this phase of the quarantine.

"There are a large number of patients who do not have symptoms. Yesterday I read a study that says that those of children between 1 and 5 years old, practically without symptoms, have between 10 and 100 times more capacity to infect than an adult. There is a lot of evidence when respect. It is a very high risk to join the grandchildren with the grandparents . We try by all means that people understand that we are still in a highly risky situation, "he said.

And he closed: "The strategy is to 'play' while we can modulate the intensive care beds. This situation is happening on a global scale."

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