04/23/2020 - 15:38
- Clarín.com
- Politics
President Alberto Fernández led a meeting with the committee of experts who advise him in the fight against the coronavirus on Thursday to analyze the next formats that the general quarantine will have to prevent the spread of the disease, starting Monday 27.
The head of state listened to the diagnoses of his medical and scientific advisers, with three days to go until the social, preventive and compulsory isolation that began on March 20 ended.
The meeting took place at the Olivos residence, where the national president holds face-to-face and videoconference meetings, and monitors and analyzes the evolution of the pandemic in Argentina.
As reported by official sources, the WHO / PAHO Special Ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean, Mirta Roses; the scientific director of the Guest Foundation, Pedro Cahn; the head of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, Omar Sued; the president of the Argentine Society of Emergencies, Gonzalo Camargo; and specialists Angela Spagnuolo de Gentile, Gustavo Lopardo, Florencia Cahn, Carlota Russ, Eduardo López, and Luis Cámera.
Fernández was accompanied by the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero; the Minister of Health, Ginés Gonzáles García, and the Secretary for Access to Health, Carla Vizzotti.
The meeting was called to analyze the progress of the "managed" quarantine , which expires on Sunday, and was held after another one that the Minister of Health kept with the specialists, which took place during the morning.
Alberto Fernandez meeting with the committee of medical and scientific experts
According to Minister González García, in statements released during the week, preventive and compulsory social isolation " will continue in a different way, with other types of phases," according to developments in the provinces.
For this same reason, during the last days, the Interior Minister Eduardo "Wado" De Pedro held dialogues with different governors, who brought him up to date on the situation in his provinces, as well as to evaluate if they continue in the same way the isolation or if they make some activities or regions more flexible, since there are places that have not registered infections so far.