03/25/2021 8:32 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/25/2021 8:46 AM
In the midst of the slow but progressive increase in infections, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, warned this Thursday about the appearance of the new strains of the coronavirus and asked to restrict travel abroad, although he clarified that it is an individual decision.
In addition, he said he has "no doubt" that the country is facing a second wave of the pandemic.
"We must avoid the new strains as much as possible. And although it is an individual decision, we ask that
trips abroad be as restrictive as possible
. This is not the time to travel, unless it is essential," he said during a press conference in which gave details of the health situation of the City of Buenos Aires.
The words of the Buenos Aires official are in line with the decree prepared by the National Government to restrict travel.
Although this Wednesday it was agreed to limit flights from Brazil and that it is the travelers who pay the cost of the PCR that will begin to be required in Ezeiza from Argentines who return from abroad, the Casa Rosada does not rule out further measures.
In that sense, Quirós remarked that it is necessary to take "all the care to delay the curve and thus have fewer patients, less social damage and to give vaccination time to progress and protect the people most at risk" because, he clarified,
" the vaccine does not prevent the wave, it avoids the damage of the wave ".}
Regarding the second wave, he insisted that "it is not a possibility" but that "there is no doubt that it is ahead and it happened to all the countries of the world."
In any case, he did not raise the possibility of returning to
time restrictions
, as suggested by his peer from the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, although the Casa Rosada ruled it out.
News in development.
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