03/14/2021 18:04
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/14/2021 18:04
The vice minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires,
Nicolás Kreplak
, spoke this Sunday about the vaccination plan in the province, asked to avoid trips to Brazil and ruled out a return to phase 1 of the quarantine.
"After seeing the northern hemisphere, there is no reason to think that we will not have the second wave," said the official. "All the ideas of herd immunizations have been totally discarded. They do not exist," he said.
In that sense, he explained that the border with
Brazil is something that worries him
, although he clarified that the variants of the virus are also in Argentina, although - for now - he said that none of them proved to be particularly dangerous.
He also said that careful measures will be taken in the coming months, but practically
ruled out a return to phase 1
of the quarantine, as happened in other parts of the world: "I don't think there will be a return to phase 1. In In the summer, some measures worked well, such as the closure of night activities and the reduction of meetings from 10 to 20 people. It was a way to reduce infections, "he exemplified.
He explained that based on these restriction models, they will have to think of strategies for when the cases rise again: "Now we notice that we are on a plateau,
but that the region is increasing
the cases of contagion."
Then he insisted again on the danger generated by the situation in Brazil: "I am concerned about the Manaus strain, we are going to monitor it to try to cut its circulation," he said in a dialogue with FM Milenium.
“In terms of health, you have to be careful with Brazil, you have to reduce exchanges to the minimum possible.
This is not the time to go on vacation to Brazil,
”he said.
Regarding the vaccination plan in the province of Buenos Aires, Kreplak said that
60 thousand people
are being vaccinated
per day
.
“Every time we receive doses, we work to apply them quickly: from the moment they arrive until we apply them, not a week goes by.
We make the distribution and application fast.
One day we had 3,000 infected and 63,000 immunized, "he said and said that there are more than 4 million registered waiting to be vaccinated.
Then he added
: “We train more than 30 thousand people to be vaccinators,
and we have more than 500 places where they vaccinate very well, there are no queues or mistreatment.
Everyone leaves very happy ”.
In addition, he said that "Argentina is well positioned" on the immunization map of South America.
And he stressed:
“The Government has the money to buy vaccines, the restriction is not the money, it is the supply.
There are companies that have not sold us vaccines, they have sold them to the first world where their shareholders are.
Pfizer did not want to sell us to Argentina ”.
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With more doses, the Province has already vaccinated 15% of those over 70 registered and the City has not yet called them