06/06/2020 - 17:06
- Clarín.com
- Society
After having been the scene of a coronavirus outbreak that set off alarms in the government and led to the isolation of thousands of people, Villa Azul, located in Quilmes and Avellaneda, will have focused isolation since Monday .
This was decided this Saturday by the Emergency Operational Committee (COE) made up of the Mayor of Quilmes, Mayra Mendoza, his Avellaneda peer, Jorge Ferraresi, the Buenos Aires Minister of Security, Sergio Berni, his Development peer, Andrés Larroque, and the Deputy Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, who met to evaluate the two weeks of community isolation that was implemented in the neighborhood to try to prevent the spread of the virus.
The decision was made due to the low rate of infections in recent days. It is that the daily positive cases decreased and the trend indicates that the contagion curve persists downward.
However, the COE resolution establishes that in the face of the declared health emergency in this new stage, people who have a confirmed case who is doing home isolation or close contacts who are under health isolation cannot in any way leave their homes .
The mayor of Quilmes speaks to a group of residents of the Villa Azul.
The Blue Villa, with 344 positive cases, was isolated almost two weeks ago after 53 infections were confirmed.
The new phase of isolation includes:
- Follow-up and supervision of the sanitary isolation at home to the cases that remained in the neighborhood and to close contacts (of those cases and of those who are housed in the UNQ).
- Food assistance for families who are close contacts for 14 days from the last contact with the patient who tested positive for coronavirus.
- Make circulation within the neighborhood and abroad more flexible under current regulations on compulsory preventive social isolation (ASPO), with the exception of cases and close contacts, who must remain at home.
- Those who are essential workers and under strict sanitary and security control may enter and leave the neighborhood .
- Return to primary care in the CAPS and leave a mobile unit taking samples when suspicious cases appear in the Quilmes CAPS.
- Continue with the police presence to guarantee compliance with social, preventive and compulsory isolation.
- Establish access points to the neighborhood.
