02/28/2021 2:14 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/28/2021 2:14 PM
Almost a year after the start of the coronavirus pandemic in Argentina and hours after in a large part of the country face-to-face classes return, this Sunday the Government
extended until March 12
the Social, Preventive and Mandatory Distancing (Dispo)
The new decree 125/2021, published in the Official Gazette and signed by President Alberto Fernández and the Chief of Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero, confirms that "
face-to-face classes
and face-to-face non-school educational activities
may be resumed
according to the evaluation parameters , stratification and determination of the level of epidemiological risk "
It also recalls that teaching and non-teaching staff and students "are
exempted and exempted from the prohibition of the use of the public service
of urban, interurban and interjurisdictional passenger
transport
, as appropriate."
It also clarifies that "economic, industrial, commercial or service activities may only be carried out, as long as they have an operating protocol approved by the health authority", as indicated in previous decrees.
And it maintains restrictions on transportation, cultural activities, massive and family reunions.
On the other hand, it points out that "as of the date of issuance of this decree, no urban agglomeration, department or party of the Argentine provinces has been affected" by the Associal, Preventive and Mandatory Isolation (Aspo) that governed last year.
The decree returns to make a list of all the essential activities that will not be framed in the prohibitions, and leaves the door open for each Province to add the exceptions that it considers pertinent in each area.
In its article 26, on the other hand, it says that "
accompaniment
must be authorized
during
hospitalization, in their last days of life, of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 or any disease or condition" according to protocols.
And later it indicates that the National Directorate of Migration "will determine and enable the international steps to enter the national territory that are more convenient" and will establish "the countries whose nationals and residents are authorized to enter the national territory."
The quarantine, which began on March 20, was renewed -with different modalities- on March 31, April 13, April 27, May 11, May 25, June 8, July, July 18, August 3, August 17, August 31, September 21, October 12, October 26, November 9, November 30 and December 21, 2020.
With this decree, the measures that had been announced on February 1, 2021, and that will be in force until March 12, were renewed.
Source: Télam
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