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In the City they admit that social humor will be "an essential element" for the continuity of the quarantine

2020-07-03T14:43:52.221Z


This was stated by the Buenos Aires Health Minister, Fernán Quirós, who reiterated that the most important technical element is whether the cases are growing or decreasing


07/03/2020 - 8:31

  • Clarín.com
  • Society

Once again, Fernán Quirós highlighted the difficulties that the extensive quarantine caused by the coronavirus living in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) generates in people, which since Wednesday entered a more restrictive stage until July 17 . And, beyond the technical issues related to health, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health admitted that social humor will be key to defining the path to take once the current stage of isolation ends.

"There are many indicators that are going to define a little the policies and the intensity of the policies, and of course that social humor and the situation in which society is is an essential element for this debate," said Quirós, who in any case He reiterated that "the most important technical element is whether the cases are increasing or decreasing."

In the City's health report, the minister insisted that in the government headed by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta "they are deeply occupied and concerned about all the dimensions that people are being harmed" in the extended quarantine and said that "the economic problems they are very intense. "

"We are going to follow the cases day by day, we are going to intensify to the maximum all the containment policies that the City has. We will see these days how the reproducibility index evolves. If we manage to lower the R from 1, surely from 17 we will to propose to retrace these measures to return to have a little more activity as necessary, "he explained.

Data on the City's health situation as of July 2.

Quirós was consulted for one of the topics that occupied the agenda this week and has to do with the preparation of protocols between the Ministry of Education of the Nation and the provinces to begin planning the return to classrooms of primary and secondary students . "Today it is impossible to say when we consider that classes can start," said the Buenos Aires official.

And he added: “We are working on all the work protocols and how the operation can be done to advance in such important activities that we have difficulties doing today. We will coordinate this protocol design through the city's Ministry of Education with the Nation ”.

In addition, he remarked the impossibility of "doing futurology with this disease" although they will try "to find a way to resume some format of educational activity".

"I do not think that today we have to think of a period as long as spending the whole year, but it is absolutely impossible to say now what the next few months will be like," Quirós stressed.

On the other hand, consulted by the forecasts of his Buenos Aires peer, Daniel Gollán regarding the next stage of the quarantine and the chances of returning to phase 3, Quirós said: "He talks about the data of the province and I with the data of the City, it is not an issue if I agree with it or not, I watch over the health of the citizens of this city ".

"The Metropolitan Area is an indivisible conglomerate, for which the public policies to attend and manage this pandemic must be between the jurisdictions, although the implementation of those policies are always jurisdictional because each one has its reality and its form," explained the minister of the team of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.

And he insisted: "We present the information on the evolution of the cases and the speed of the curve every day. If we manage to lower the R below one, without any doubt we are going to propose retracing our steps, we are making all the necessary efforts to make that happen. and people are doing everything to accompany ".

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Source: clarin

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