Guido Carelli Lynch
08/12/2020 - 18:52
- Clarín.com
- Politics
In a dynamic that is already a constant before each of the extensions of the quarantine in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, the head of Government Horacio Rodríguez Larreta met with the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof . The meeting in the first's office lasted more than two and a half hours and left no substantial news. At the head of government and in the governorate they have different views on "the health" of the health system and the number of beds in the AMBA. The isolation will run virtually unchanged until August 30.
The meeting served to finish agreeing on positions before their joint visit to Olivos, this Thursday, where they will finish polishing with the President the announcement of a new stage of measures to contain the coronavirus .
Close to Alberto Fernández, they describe the repeated photo of the president with the two district chiefs of the largest urban conglomerate in the country as necessary and reassuring for citizens. "One sees the three working together and wonders when they are going to found a party," exaggerated a national official to destroy the versions of possible ruptures.
Nobody is betting that will happen. This Wednesday there were gestures of détente between the Government and the City after the President and national and Buenos Aires officials warned about the lack of beds for PAMI affiliates in the Capital, an issue that surrounded the meeting at the Buenos Aires Executive headquarters. "The work that we have been doing together with Fernán Quirós is essential to control the pandemic and avoid the collapse of the health system," said the National Health Minister Ginés González García after delivering 380 monitors and 100 infusion pumps to his Buenos Aires counterpart to guarantee the attention of people residing in the Capital.
After his visit to the presidential residence on Monday, Larreta postponed his plans to open bars and outdoor dining that he envisioned weeks ago for this date, when he devised a six-phase flexibilization plan. However, it will not be deprived of announcing new qualifications , a constant at each stage, according to its collaborators.
This time it will be the turn of individual sports, of the shops in the Once neighborhood, Avellaneda avenue, streaming of artists (theaters without an audience) and of the missing professions: architects and engineers.
Buenos Aires Health Minister Daniel Gollan and Government Minister Teresa García had criticized the establishment of golf, but during the meeting between Larreta and Kicillof the issue was not touched upon. "We are not concerned about that," said extremely trusted collaborators of the governor.
There was also no mention of the reports about a pilot test for the partial return of students to schools, which circulated immediately after the meeting ended and which the City ended up denying. The plan for 5,000 students to return to the classroom was discussed at a joint meeting of education ministers from the two jurisdictions. The Province advances with the return of classes in the interior of Buenos Aires for September. "There was talk of the need to move forward with a lot of control reviewing the indexes day by day," they explained in the City.
The head of Government and the governor reviewed the numbers of the occupation of beds and the contagiousness of the virus. The first variable is the one that worries the most in La Plata. In Uspallata Street - headquarters of the Buenos Aires Executive - instead they point to the second, which in the Capital is more benevolent than on the other side of General Paz. “That we today have more availability of beds that the City does not relax us. It scares us even more and makes us think about options all the time to increase (the number of beds) ”, they pointed out near Kicillof.
In both districts they are evaluating how to add more therapy units. The idea of adding the units of pediatric hospitals and clinics advances. In La Matanza, Buenos Aires Minister Gollan, González García and Mayor Fernando Espinoza signed an agreement to add 171 intensive care beds from the private sector to the municipality's network.
Quirós in his morning presentation recognized that the Buenos Aires private system is more stressed. “The number of cases in the city of Buenos Aires is relatively stable, with one week increasing and one week decreasing. We are in a high average of cases, between 1,100 to 1,200 daily; It is a high plateau ”, highlighted the minister.
In public Larreta and Kicillof close ranks despite the underground shorts. "We continue to work together to face the coronavirus. This afternoon we had a very positive meeting with @horaciorlarreta to monitor the epidemiological situation and analyze the next health measures in the AMBA," the governor tweeted.