04/04/2021 14:08
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/04/2021 2:45 PM
After it was confirmed that Alberto Fernández has coronavirus, the Minister of National Health, Carla Vizzotti, assured this Sunday
that the President "is well" and "in good spirits
.
"
The official spoke at around 2 pm from the Ezeiza airport, where she received a new shipment of Sputnik V vaccines. "The President is very well, in good spirits, with all the control parameters this morning stable," said Vizzotti.
The minister added that Fernández complies with the isolation in the Quinta de Olivos, while maintaining control of all his close contacts.
"We have that tranquility and we are happy," he
reaffirmed.
Meanwhile, this Sunday the swab performed on Felipe Solá was negative, as confirmed by the Chancellor to
Clarín
.
He had been isolated as being in close contact with the President.
Also the Buenosairean governor, Axel Kicillof, took calm when assuring that it spoke with Fernández and that the disease is "practically without symptoms."
"President Alberto Fernández just called me. He told me that he feels well and that the disease is progressing with practically no symptoms. We are talking about the health situation of the Province," he summarized on his Twitter account.
The President just called me @alferdez.
He told me that he feels fine and that the disease is progressing with practically no symptoms.
We talk about the health situation of the Province.
- Axel Kicillof (@Kicillofok) April 4, 2021
His words were in line with those enunciated by the President himself in the first minutes of Saturday, when he confirmed the result of the antigen test and assured that he was "in good spirits."
Hours later, PCR analysis confirmed that he had coronavirus.
"I'm fine, I don't have any symptoms. Only that fever from yesterday that I mentioned in the tweet. I am isolated here at Quinta de Olivos. It is a very complicated virus, and the proof is that I was infected, that I am already vaccinated with the two doses and that the care is extreme, "he later confirmed to
Clarín
.
New batch of vaccines and second wave
Although Vizzotti expressed satisfaction with the arrival of a new shipment of vaccines from Russia (about 500 thousand doses), he emphasized intensifying care from the rise in infections and the second wave.
The new batch of Sputnik brought about 500 thousand doses of component one.
Photo: AFP
"
We have an increase in the number of cases
, so we are working as always, with scientific evidence, in relation to activities of more and less risk and also in relation to the diversity of the country, working hard with the consensus of the 24 jurisdictions ", he analyzed.
Vizzotti did not rule out new measures in the short term: "Some recommendations and national measures are being evaluated in relation to reducing the movement of people, always knowing that any measure must have the compliance and commitment of society."
In this regard, he emphasized the use of masks, social distancing, hand hygiene and ventilation of environments.
"We have to air the rooms constantly and with cross ventilation. It is not to open the window for a little while and close it," he remarked.
This Sunday a new shipment of Sputnik V vaccines landed at the Ezeiza international airport, with which Argentina has already exceeded the 7.2 million doses received among all laboratories since last December.
According to official sources, Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR1068 - the eleventh from Moscow - arrived around 1 pm with a shipment of 497,745 doses, in addition to the one million Sinopharm vaccines that arrived from China on Thursday.
They are all from component 1, with which the immunization plan begins.
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