10/15/2020 20:10
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/15/2020 20:10
"The first results say that we are dominating the virus."
That old phrase from President Alberto Fernández to the former Calle 13, René “Residente” Joglar, in March and by videoconference,
was as far away as the pre-COVID “old normality”
.
This Thursday the record of positives was broken again (17,096) and the deaths are more than 25 thousand.
And to all this, we must add an unusual economic collapse and the "longest quarantine in the world."
What draws attention to the internal borders is something that in Spain does not go unnoticed and the newspaper El País highlighted this transformation from a "regional example" of Argentina, to being hacked by the virus.
The Spanish media assured that our country suffers an "increasingly difficult quarantine to sustain."
"The initial consensus that President Alberto Fernández counted on has exploded and social discontent has strengthened the opposition, which supports street demonstrations against the Government, criticizes the 'eternal quarantine' and demands a quick return to normality ", he described.
Graphics made by the newspaper El País, from Spain, to show how COVID-19 hits Argentina.
El País newspaper photo.
"The strict quarantine slowed the spread of the coronavirus, but did not stop it. Until August, about 90% of the cases of covid-19 were concentrated in Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area (AMBA), but as of September the coronavirus began to spread rapidly throughout the rest of the Argentine territory, "he continued.
According to El País, the millions of people who leave home to work or seek income to supplement state subsidies are compounded by social exhaustion and the relaxation of prevention measures despite being at the most critical moment.
More and more people are breaking the ban on gathering at home or in other enclosed spaces.
In addition, he indicated that the current spread of the virus in the interior of the country "has steepened the curve of the pandemic at a time when it is decreasing in most Latin American countries."
Graphics made by the newspaper El País, from Spain, to show how COVID-19 hits Argentina.
El País newspaper photo.
Likewise, he indicated that in the number of deaths per million, considered the most reliable data to establish comparisons given the generalized underreporting of cases, "Argentina has half that of Peru (552 compared to 1,045) and is ninth in the continent, behind other countries. like Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Chile.
Although he warned: "However, it is moving further and further away from Uruguay, considered today the regional success story (15 deaths per million) and is likely to soon surpass Colombia (567), which peaked in August and today is around the 150 deaths a day compared to 400 in Argentina ".
"The pandemic has hit Argentina in its third year of recession, with a millionaire foreign debt in full renegotiation and a worse forecast than the regional average: according to the IMF, GDP will plummet 11.8% this year," he concluded.
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