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06/30/2020 - 11:24
- Clarín.com
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The national government began with the renewal of permits for workers of the 30 activities allowed in the new phase of quarantine, which will be in effect from July 1 to 17, 2020.
On the first day of granting (Monday, June 29), 850 thousand permits were authorized, but the idea of Alberto Ángel Fernández's administration is to strongly reduce circulation and, therefore, the control to release authorizations will be very strict.
The official axes for the success of reducing infections will be in control and circulation, so the Government wants to reduce the number of permits granted by more than two million. Of 1.3 million that had been released in the City of Buenos Aires, the figure would drop to 700,000. And in the province of Buenos Aires, they would decrease from 4 million to 2.5.
Traffic controls at the Constitución station due to a pandemic. Photo: Andrés D'Elia -
In the AMBA (Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area) almost 6 million people with essential worker permits circulated, out of a total of 8 million throughout the country.
Now, the effort will be put into strongly reducing circulation in the area that concentrates 95% of COVID-19 infections. This task is in the hands of the Technological Innovation Secretariat, which reports to the Head of the National Cabinet, which is led by Santiago Cafiero.
You also want to avoid misuse of permits that were for 48 hours for special situations, such as visits to family members or separated parents. These will now be 24 hours and twice a week. But the situation of those who argue that they should take care of people several or every day of the week , such as the elderly or disabled , will be addressed .
The focus of the reduction of circulation is set in the City of Buenos Aires (which is governed by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta) and in the Buenos Aires suburbs, under the jurisdiction of Governor Axel Kicillof.
The municipalities of the Province where isolation prevails in this current phase are: Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Berazategui, Berisso, Ensenada, Escobar, Esteban Echeverría, Ezeiza, Florencio Varela, General Las Heras, General Rodríguez, General San Martín, Hurlingham, Ituzaingó , José C. Paz, La Matanza, Lanús, La Plata, Lomas de Zamora, Luján, Marcos Paz, Malvinas Argentinas, Moreno, Merlo, Morón, Pilar, Presidente Perón, Quilmes, San Fernando, San Isidro, San Miguel, San Vicente , Tigre, Tres de Febrero, And Vicente López.
Circulation controls. Photo Quinteros
The national government will also review the permits that are granted in the Chaco province, the General Roca department of the Río Negro province and the urban agglomerate of the city of Neuquén (province of Neuquén), where infections have also increased so remarkable.
All of this is governed by Decree 576/2020 that determined a social, preventive and compulsory isolation (ASPO) and that defined the following 30 permitted activities.
1. Health Personnel, Security Forces, Armed Forces, migratory activity, National Meteorological Service, firefighters and air traffic control.
2. Superior authorities of the National, Provincial, Municipal Governments and of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires; workers of the national, provincial, municipal public sector and of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, summoned and summoned by the respective authorities.
3. Personnel of the justice services on duty, as established by the competent authorities.
4. Foreign diplomatic and consular personnel accredited to the Argentine government, within the framework of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and the staff of international organizations accredited to the Argentine government, de la Cruz Red and White Helmets.
5. Persons who must assist others with disabilities, relatives who need assistance, the elderly, boys, girls or adolescents.
Circulation controls. Photo Mario Quinteros
6. People who must attend to a situation of force majeure.
7. People affected to the performance of funeral services, burials and cremations. In such a framework, activities that signify meeting of people are not authorized.
8. People affected to the attention of school, community canteens and picnic areas.
9. Personnel working in audiovisual, radio and graphic communication services.
10. Personnel affected by public works.
11. Wholesale and retail supermarkets and retail stores with proximity to food, personal hygiene and cleaning. Pharmacy. Hardware stores. Veterinary. Bottle provision.
12. Food industries, their production chain and supplies; personal hygiene and cleanliness; of medical equipment, medicines, vaccines and other health supplies, in the terms of article 3 of Administrative Decision No. 429/20 which clarifies that in article 6 paragraph 12 of Decree No. 297/20 when it refers to the Food industries will be understood as those that make up the value chain and inputs of the productive sectors of food and beverages, personal hygiene and cleaning, medical equipment, medicines, vaccines and other sanitary supplies.
13. Activities related to the production, distribution and commercialization of agriculture and fishing.
14. Telecommunications, fixed and mobile internet and digital services activities.
15. Non-deferrable activities related to foreign trade.
16. Collection, transport and treatment of urban solid waste, dangerous and pathogenic.
17. Maintenance of basic services (water, electricity, gas, communications, etc.) and emergency care.
18. Public passenger transportation, transportation of goods, oil, fuels and LPG.
19. Home delivery of food, medicines, hygiene products, cleaning products and other supplies of need.
20. Laundry services.
21. Postal and parcel distribution services.
22. Essential surveillance, cleaning and guard services.
23. Minimum guards to ensure the operation and maintenance of Oil and Gas Fields, Oil and gas treatment and / or refining plants, transportation and distribution of electrical energy, liquid fuels, oil and gas, fuel vending stations and generators of electric power.
24. Sociedad de Estado Casa de Moneda, ATM services, cash transportation and all those activities that the CENTRAL BANK OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC authorizes.
25. Operation of Nuclear Power Plants. Hotels affected by the health emergency service. Airport operation. Operation of garages and parking lots with minimum provisions. Restaurants, prepared food places and fast food places, with home delivery services. Circulation of the ministers of the different cults for the purpose of providing spiritual assistance. All this in the terms of Administrative Decision No. 429/20 article 1, paragraphs 3, 4, 7 and 10 and article 2.
26. Registration, identification and documentation of persons, in the terms of Administrative Decision No. 450/20, article 1, subsection 8.
27. Movement of people with disabilities and professionals who serve them. Banking with customer service, exclusively with a shift system; all in the terms of Administrative Decision No. 490/20, article 1, paragraphs 1, 2 and 3.
28. National and provincial registry activity, with a shift system and minimum guards. Revenue offices of the Provinces, of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and of the Municipalities, with shift systems and minimum guards. Establishments for the care of people victims of gender violence. Scheduled medical and dental care, preventive and monitoring of chronic diseases, with a previous shift system. Clinical analysis laboratories and diagnostic imaging centers, with a previous shift system. Optics, with previous shift system; all in the terms of Administrative Decision No. 524/20 article 1, subsections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9.
29. Transfer of children and adolescents, under the terms of Administrative Decision No. 703/20.
30. Personnel of the NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY -ANSES-, under the terms of Administrative Decision No. 810/20 article 2, paragraph 1.
For their part, the prohibited activities are as follows:
1. Dictation of face-to-face classes at all levels and all modalities.
2. Public and private events: social, cultural, recreational, sports, religious and of any other nature that involve the attendance of people.
3. Shopping centers, cinemas, theaters, cultural centers, libraries, museums, restaurants, bars, gyms, clubs and any public or private space that involves the attendance of people.
4. Interurban, interjurisdictional and international Public Transportation Service for passengers, except for the cases provided for in article 24 of this decree.
5. Tourism. Opening of parks and squares.