05/06/2020 - 16:27
- Clarín.com
- Society
Managing quarantine in the province of Buenos Aires involves deploying administrative engineering over 135 jurisdictions with surgeon precision. Almost two weeks required provincial officials and mayors to design the opening scheme for commercial activities that begin to roll out economic structures, after more than 45 days of paralysis due to the coronavirus pandemic.
After evaluating 960 folders with proposals to open social and productive confinement, the Chief of Cabinet completed the provincial map and 94 municipalities were in a position to open shops with delivery sales, office services, local tax collection offices, analysis laboratories insurance clinicians and inspectors, among others.
But also, in this group that represents two thirds of all the municipalities of the Province, there are 33 districts that have already reached a status close to that of "normal" in the operation of social: customers are allowed to enter the shops (with face masks, one or two and in time bands), they began to attend hairdressers, manicures or kinesiologists and restaurants allow the removal of food at the door of the premises.
Thus, in this phase of social confinement, Buenos Aires shows two different faces . An urban conglomerate of 25 communes, to which are added cities with more than 500 thousand inhabitants (La Plata, Mar del Plata) where the restrictions remain firm and regulated with chains. In those urban areas where 78% of Buenos Aires residents live, the DNU of the National Government does not allow openings.
In the vastness of the pampas far from the metropolises, the deadly action of the plague could hardly appear as a threat . The Ministry of Health of the Nation, based on the data gathered by the SISA system (where all the country's health information is loaded) registers 52 communes where up to now there have been no cases of patients affected by the disease that flooded the world with death and humanitarian disasters.
There they are listed -among others- the district with the least inhabitants of the Province, Tordillo; riverside towns such as Punta Indio; cities that limit with other provinces (General Villegas, Tres Lomas), austral like Coronel Suárez or Puán, maritime like Villa Gesell or Mediterranean like Tapalqué. It is a varied painting of the extensive Buenos Aires. Populations scattered on plains or mountainous areas that have been able to avoid, until now, the fear of overwhelming infections.
Infections in the Province of Buenos Aires
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Data as of May 05
Source: MINISTRY OF SALUS OF THE PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES Infographic: Clarín
Another 22 towns have just one case , a neighbor who at the moment has the unwanted privilege of appearing in local statistics. Nine towns have two affected by the disease and another six note only three affected.
To round off: of the 135 departments in which Buenos Aires is politically divided, 87 have less than three infected in their regions. After a month and a half from the start of social confinement, the authorities consider that there are arguments to resume the daily rhythm , always with caution. Or with protocols.
The head of the provincial Cabinet, Pablo Bianco, is in charge of receiving the requests for authorization from the mayors, making them compatible with the regulations established by the Nation and signing the resolutions so that the new tasks begin to be incorporated in each place. "It is a mechanism to start up the productivity of the province," they explain in the government offices.
There is a category that goes a little further in the ratings. It is the one that regulates and allows specific industrial processes , destined to the provision of other commercial sectors (paint shops, hardware stores, pens, agricultural machinery, workshops). Mar del Plata, Saladillo, San Isidro, Alberti and Chascomús have already entered this block. And officials study the formulas proposed by 59 other cities.
The permission for recreational outings appears as the most resisted for its authorization. To enter this box, it requires that there be no community contagion, that the number of cases in the last 15 days not double, and that the town does not integrate the nucleus of cities "AMBA + 500 thousand inhabitants". In addition, the request must be signed by the mayor. There were 50 districts left with the possibility of requesting it , but only a handful were encouraged.
Villa Gesell started this week with the plan to stretch his legs outdoors. But this Wednesday, the mayor, Gustavo Barrera, threatened to "turn everything back" because he warned of abuse among the locals. Puán, in the south of Buenos Aires, also approved recess for one hour and up to 500 meters from home, in a limited time slot. Social networks were filled with "complaints" for alleged protocol violations. It is a difficult balance between need, wants and obligations.
The 94 authorized municipalities
1. May 25
2. July 9
3. Adolfo Alsina
4. Alberti
5. Hazelnut
6. Ayacucho
7. Blue
8. Bahía Blanca
9. Balcarce
10. Baradero
11. Bolívar
12. Bragado
13. Bell
14. Carlos Casares
15. Carlos Tejedor
16. Carmen de Areco
17. Chacabuco
18. Chascomús
19. Chivilcoy
20. Colonel Dorrego
21. Colonel Pringles
22. Colonel Rosales
23. Daireaux
14. Dolores
25. Escobar
26. Exaltation of the Cross
27. Florentino Ameghino
28. General Alvarado
29. General Alvear
30. General Arenales
31. General Belgrano
32. General La Madrid
33. General Las Heras
34. General Madariaga
35. General Paz
36. General Pinto
37. General Pueyrredón
38. General Villegas
39. Gonzáles Chaves
40. Guaminí
41. Hipólito Yrigoyen
42. Junín
43. The Coast
44. The Slaughter
45. La Plata
46. Lanús
47. Laprida
48. Leandro N. Alem
49. Lezama
50. seal
51. Wolves
52. Lomas de Zamora
53. Luján
54. Magdalena
55. Maipú
56. Malvinas Argentinas
57. Mar Chiquita
58. Marcos Paz
59. Mercedes
60. Mount
61. Monte Hermoso
62. Moreno
63. Morón
64. Necochea
65. Olavarría
66. Pellegrini
67. Pila
68. Pinamar
69. Ramallo
70. Rivadavia
71. Red
72. Roque Pérez
73. Saavedra
74. Saladillo
75. Salliqueló
76. Jump
77. San Andrés de Giles
78. San Antonio de Areco
79. San Cayetano
80. San Isidro
81. Saint Martin
82. San Miguel
83. Saint Nicholas
84. Saint Peter
85. Suipacha
86. Tandil
87. Tapalqué
88. Tordillo
89. Tornquist
90. Trenque Lauquen
91. Tres Arroyos
92. February Three
93. Villa Gesell
94. Villarino