Pablo Sigal
09/16/2020 - 20:19
Clarín.com
Society
It had happened with Sweden.
Now it happened with Chile.
With the evening part of this Wednesday, Argentina surpassed it in the total of deaths:
12,116 against 12,058
.
With this, the country was ranked
14th in the world
among those with the highest number of deaths from coronavirus.
The common denominator in both cases was that President Alberto Fernández had had a
previous
“diplomatic crossing”
.
First
with the
Swedes,
in May, and with the
Chileans
at the end of August.
It is always important to emphasize that both Sweden and Chile are not countries comparable with Argentina
in absolute figures
, because the number of inhabitants in those territories is much lower: 10 million the first and 19 million the second, against 45 million in our country.
However, the head of state himself has had a tendency to manifest these comparisons.
On August 30, the Chilean Health Minister, Enrique Paris, came out to show his discomfort with the Argentine president after he claimed that Chile had collapsed.
And he replied openly that making comparisons
"is hateful."
His country added 1,304 cases and 18 deaths on Wednesday.
“Chile, thank God, has managed to contain the problem that it initially had with the lack of sanatoriums and beds.
He's coping well.
He is almost the same as us, "Fernández said in an interview with C5N. The journalist interrupted him:" President, Chile collapsed more than us. ”And Fernández nodded:“
Chile collapsed more than us
. Santiago de Chile collapsed, more than anything. But little by little they were normalizing at a significant cost, because many lives were lost along the way ”.
Then came the Chilean response, which was a kind of second act of what had been the Swedish reply in May.
It happened after that remembered May 8 in which the famous films put the Nordic country as the protagonist in one of the many renewals of the quarantine.
"If we did what Sweden did, we would have had 13,900 dead," the President said that day.
President Alberto Fernández during a telephone conversation with the President of Chile on June 17.
Photo: Télam
The Swedish Embassy came out to answer him:
"It is difficult to make direct comparisons
.
"
And he added: "We are always willing to dialogue with countries to
learn from each other
."
Time passed and Sweden was finally able to control the pandemic.
It has managed to completely flatten the curve with values that many countries envy today:
87,575 cases and 5,860 deaths.
However, the initial crisis of its anti-quarantine policy has determined that today it has fewer cases per million inhabitants but
more than double the number of deaths per million than Argentina
(579 against 263).
In the case of Chile, something similar happens, since the trans-Andean country
even exceeds Sweden
in deaths per million inhabitants (630).
The third country with which Argentina had an interdict after another of Fernández's conferences was Spain.
On July 31, Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof participated in the usual presentations with the President and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta when he affirmed that the decision to renew the
quarantine coincided with similar measures
that were adopted in other parts of the world, among which he
mentioned Spain. .
"New regions, particularly the Basque Country, Catalonia, and at this time with
strict quarantine in Barcelona,
" said the governor, prompting the response of the representatives of that country in Argentina: "Given certain information that has circulated in the day Today, the Embassy of Spain would like to clarify that since the state of alarm was lifted on June 21,
neither Barcelona nor any other part of Spanish territory has been under quarantine
, neither strictly nor of any kind ”.
Spain comes to mind because Argentina
escorts that country in the world ranking of nations with the most cases
.
Argentina is tenth and Spain, ninth.
In recent days he had been on his heels, but the outbreaks in the European country have caused some distance to return.
Only this Wednesday, Spain added 11,193 new cases and 239 deaths.
And they have a total of 647 deaths and 13,139 cases per million inhabitants.
Argentina has been in recent days among the countries with the
most deaths per million inhabitants every 24 hours
.
Monday was first in the world.
And on Tuesday, second behind Brazil.
This behavior has led him to exceed the number of deaths in other countries that a few months ago he was watching from afar, such as Germany, Canada and Belgium.
The countries that still
have more deaths in absolute numbers than Argentina
are the United States (201,260), Brazil (134,106), India (83,230), Mexico (71,678), United Kingdom (41,684), Italy (35,645), France (31,045), Peru (30,927), Spain (30,243), Iran (23,632), Colombia (23,478), Russia (18,917) and South Africa (15,705).
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