08/29/2020 - 16:03
- Clarín.com
- Society
Although President Alberto Fernández authorized meetings of up to 10 people in open spaces both on public roads and in the patios and terraces of houses, the Buenos Aires government established conditions to enable the meetings and in the province of Buenos Aires they directly indicated that will continue to be prohibited.
When announcing the continuity of social isolation against the coronavirus until September 20, the President informed that social meetings in the open air will be enabled.
"We can take a new step by authorizing meetings of up to 10 people in the open air, maintaining the distance of 2 meters and the use of chinstraps. This will be in force throughout the country and will be implemented in each jurisdiction," said President Fernández.
With great social and political unity, the vast majority of society is aware of the risks that Covid-19 implies. Today, personal responsibility, which has a collective impact, is more necessary than ever.
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Even national government sources consulted by Clarín remarked that the permit included meetings in spaces such as patios, terraces and gardens. "All spaces that are homeless," they remarked.
It was news that generated enormous expectations in the face of the already five months of quarantine. However, shortly after the objections of the Federal Capital and Buenos Aires were known.
In the case of the Federal Capital, it was the deputy head of the Buenos Aires Government, Diego Santilli, who came out to clarify that these meetings would only be authorized in open public spaces .
"In the open air it is a sidewalk, houses are not. For the moment, we are thinking that the meetings are in public spaces: parks and squares," the official explained in statements to Radio Con Vos and considered that "on the terrace people neglect themselves" .
Meanwhile, from the Buenos Aires government headed by Axel Kicillof they came out to emphasize that the meetings will continue to be directly prohibited.
"At the moment we cannot do it; the contagion threshold is very high and it would be risky," they argued from the Government before Clarín's consultation and remarked that the quarantine will continue without changes in the districts that are part of Greater Buenos Aires, an area that became the epicenter of the coronavirus.
From the surroundings of the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, politically related to Fernández, they have stressed that it is not a question of a "disobedience" or "contradiction".
The 35 municipalities that are in the jurisdiction of the Province present a weekly average of 4,800 cases. On August 20 that indicator was at 3,600. And this Friday 7,470 cases were reported.
The other key number is the occupancy level of intensive care beds, which in the last bulletin was already over 64 percent. The system touched 70 percent occupancy at the peak of the pandemic.
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