Guillermo Villarreal
06/23/2020 - 9:50
- Clarín.com
- Society
He did not travel to attend his sick grandmother as the permit he presented at the road checkpoint said: he came to spend a few days with his girlfriend in an apartment three blocks from the beach. A tourist in quarantine. But in reality it is an impostor that the authorities managed to unmask from a reliable fact: the boy carries a coronavirus.
He circumvented the controls on Route 226 to enter Mar del Plata and it was evident when the result of the swab that had to be done upon arrival was known. It tested positive. When they went looking for him, the lies fell one by one.
The car he drove was not his, nor was his green card, permit, and ID. The identity and documentation you used are from someone else, a friend of yours. Federal Justice intervened, and the young man was isolated in a hotel. The concern, now, lies in determining whether the virus has spread.
As he was traveling from Córdoba, when he arrived at the 226 checkpoint on Saturday, the route that connects Mar del Plata to the west with Balcarce, he had the option of completing the quarantine or undergoing a swab, which this 23-year-old Cordovan opted for. . They escorted him to a laboratory and the study he paid for out of pocket was done.
The test result was released on Monday night. He did not answer the phone he left, nor to the email. It was imperative to locate her: the city today has a single case under treatment by Covid-19, a 30-year-old woman doctor from the Interzonal Hospital who was repatriated from Bolivia. Mar del Plata, in which there is no community circulation, has not registered cases for ten days.
The search continued with the search of the vehicle, and thus they found the true owner of the car. "I am in Córdoba," the man excused himself, and said: "The one over there with the car is my friend." The Police located him in an apartment that he had rented in Gascón in 1800. He was not alone, a young woman accompanied him.
Before being isolated in a downtown hotel, the boy told La Capital newspaper that he had actually come to visit his girlfriend and that he had not been to any social gathering. "We only went out to do some shopping in the neighborhood and always wearing a mask," and he said that he is fine, without any symptoms.
He recounted more in that note: that three months ago he had worked in the United States and that he was convinced that he had contracted coronavirus there. He deduced it from fever, cough, and loss of smell, so he believed it raised antibodies.
True or not, what he said and did is now being investigated by Federal Justice. Prosecutor Laura Mazzaferri took action and shortly after confirming the positive, she took the first testimonial statements to determine the crimes that could be imputed to the young man who drove around roadblocks for more than 1,000 kilometers.
The foolishness of the Cordovan closed a Monday of bad news for the people of Mar del Plata, who have been asking for exceptions to the province of Buenos Aires, which are successively rejected. There are sectors on the edge, such as gastronomy, whose protocol was rejected last week; closings are continually being known for good. Emblematic venues have already closed. This Monday the resounding no was for athletes.
Skate, jog, walk, roller, cycling, surfing, sup, sailing, kayaking, equestrian jumps, dressage, swimming, individual high performance activities or individual activities with use of facilities are still closed.
"It is difficult to understand some parameters to allow some activities and others not," said Guillermo Montenegro's government secretary, Santiago Bonifatti, and gave the City of Buenos Aires as an example, "which has 1,000 cases per day and people can leave to run".
One of the assumptions here indicates that achieving the 21 days without infection that the province requires to advance phase "for a city of 800 thousand inhabitants is almost impossible to fulfill."
The photo that I circulate in the networks after the refusal, the one of a surfer covered from head to toe in his neoprene suit with the board under his arm, standing on the subway platform, gives the guideline of another of the conjectures: "In the province think that we are going to surf like this, or that we are part of the conurbano ", said the epigraph.
The same official told Clarín : "They are not reading clearly what is happening in some districts like ours because they are seeing the film of what is happening in Amba."
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