Roxana Badaloni
08/23/2020 - 14:48
- Clarín.com
- Society
San Juan returned to phase 1 of the coronavirus quarantine for 14 days and the government of Peronist Sergio Uñac undertook operations to track cases that border on illegality: they isolate entire neighborhoods and place security strips on the doors of the houses of people who have tested positive.
The police publish the list of people caught in forbidden social encounters. The sanitary brigadistas with their protective suits, in trucks and giving announcements through loudspeakers, ask the neighbors not to leave their houses . They throw bags of food in the streets for families to take and avoid going out to buy.
It is the same province that ten days ago made the news due to the return of face-to-face classes, but a sudden outbreak in the municipality of Caucete , 30 kilometers east of the capital, unleashed the alarm and extreme measures by the San Juan government. The Cuyo province has 85 registered cases since the pandemic began. There are 64 active cases as of this Sunday, 8 hospitalized and no deaths from Covid-19 .
In the houses of people who test positive for Covid-19, a girdle is placed. San Juan returned to phase 1 with strict control. Photo SiSanJuan
The municipalities with isolated neighborhoods are Caucete, Santa Lucía, Capital, Rivadavia and Sarmiento . Areas will be added as new infected appear, as an outbreak control policy established in the San Juan government's Security Plan.
Since Friday night when Uñac declared a strict quarantine for 14 days, social networks have reported the harassment and stigmatization suffered by those suspected of being infected. “A ghetto system . If one tests positive, the neighborhoods close. They believe that we are in Wuhan and that communism governs us ”, among so many rejection comments posted by Twitter users.
In this province of western Argentina where there is practically no opposition, the criticisms came from the doctors themselves.
That's how Nazis are in San Juan, @sergiounac? pic.twitter.com/TOuczgcqEN
- Gustavo 👷 (@gustavo__CBA) August 23, 2020Video of San Juan. Speechless. pic.twitter.com/zPTHkckxay
- FLOPI ESTRELLITA (@EstrellitaFlopi) August 23, 2020The San Juan medical union posted on Facebook a photo of the front of a house in the municipality of Rivadavia with a security strip that blocks the door of a house and warns with red capital letters: "People in isolation." And below it appears the date written with a pen "from August 22 to August 29", signed with the logo of the Government of San Juan. The poster exposes its residents to the gaze of the entire neighborhood and the strip prevents them from leaving their homes.
"Mr. Governor, this is over the top. Is it inquisition? Even medical secrets are being violated and stigmatizing those who are victims of the pandemic is serious. Any of us can be in this situation ”, repudiated the San Juan Medical Union.
The media in San Juan report the amazing deployment of health operations: "Dozens of people divided into health brigades, to rake house by house and testing neighbors with serological tests and swabs, both in homes and in community areas", reported the Diario de Cuyo.
The operations include the closure of entire neighborhoods. Photo SiSanJuan
In line the San Juan people wait in parks and squares to undergo the tests: Between one and two people per family to take the tests; For now, it is the only movement outside their homes that the medical and police authorities allow them.
The same measure of placing security strips had been taken with the truckers who transport goods from other provinces with greater Covid-19 circulation. Since July 15, the police have placed strips on the side doors of trucks that do not have to unload in San Juan, but are passing through because they are heading to another province. As explained by the Secretary of Security, Carlos Munisaga, this strip is removed at the exit control of the province to prevent drivers from getting off somewhere on the road.
Drivers in transit cannot get off at any cafeteria or bathroom, for any reason. They can refuel, as long as it does not involve the driver getting out of the vehicle. If the truck suffers a mechanical damage and breaks the security seal to get off, "you must prove and prove why you should have done it" or you will be stopped.
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