Correspondent La Plata
08/24/2020 - 12:53
- Clarín.com
- Society
Clandestine parties, crowded social gatherings, and other pandemic-era transgressions have become allies in the spread of the coronavirus. And that unexpected alliance had repercussions in the interior regions of the Province where they had to tighten isolation measures, restrict economic activities and once again prohibit recreational outings.
According to the latest report from the Buenos Aires Cabinet Headquarters, only 43 municipalities remain in phase 5 (social distancing) . A month and a half ago, when national and provincial decisions allowed us to open the way to the “new normal”, there were 72 jurisdictions in that category. That is, in 45 days they lost the category, they descended, 29 communes of the interior.
The retreat shows the advance of the plague over the vast Buenos Aires pampas and the mountainous areas of the central zone. This morning, in his usual report on Mondays, the Chief of Staff, Carlos Bianco, explained that one of the reasons for this dissemination is a certain general indiscipline that was observed in some towns. "The mayors tell us that they had to go back because of a little mass barbecue or clandestine events , " said the official.
Some of these disobediences and other factors of the dynamics of the disease were registered last week in May 25, Balcarce, La costa, General Viamonte, Junín, Las Flores, Mar Chiquita, Tandil and Villa Gessel, which left the relaxed norms of quarantine stage 5 to return to stage 4, which deprives them of recreational outings, the possibility of having a coffee at the bar or training in some sports.
There were also improvements in epidemiological conditions that enabled reopening. In Coronel Dorrego, Navarro and Suipacha they managed to stop the infections in their populations and went to the last stage of social distancing for now.
Now in the province a new map is drawn with 39 districts in phase 3 (stricter quarantine that governs all of Greater Buenos Aires and other municipalities that registered multiple cases); 53 in phase 4 and, as said 43 in phase 5.
For the first time, since this “geocoronavirus” occurred, there are more locations in phase 4 than in phase 5. The “new normal presents, since that first scene in early July, a sustained decline. It means that fewer and fewer towns are avoiding the pandemic. Worse are other towns such as Laprida that due to the appearance of an outbreak in recent days had to jump from 5 to 3, without stopovers. It remained within the package of municipalities that are part of the urban cordon that surrounds the Federal Capital.
However, the authorities now maintain a more optimistic outlook. “We are seeing that the AMBA, especially the first cordon, begins to have a marked decrease in the speed of contagion. It is a good sign, ”said Health Minister Daniel Gollan. He also said that "we are beginning to flatten the curve" , although he clarified that all this is observed from the effort of Buenos Aires and with the current level of mobility. "If we all go out into the street, it will skyrocket again," said the head of the health area, who sometimes has reckless forecasts about the pandemic and its evolution.
Along the same lines, Bianco clarified that at the moment there is no evaluation of running to the metropolitan area of phase 3. “We are comfortable in this situation. Because although we see a stabilization, the numbers are very high and that is why we remain concerned.
Buenos Aires also enabled, starting today in the suburbs, the practice of individual sports. There are 17 disciplines, they must be carried out with authorized protocols, in open spaces or neighborhood clubs and with the corresponding circulation permit.
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