Another record of coronavirus cases: more than 24 thousand new infections are confirmed and Argentina added 100 thousand positives in just five days

04/09/2021 4:39 PM

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 04/09/2021 4:45 PM

Argentina

broke its

daily

record

of coronavirus infections

for the fourth day in a row

.

This Friday, the Ministry of Health of the Nation will

report more than 24,000 positive cases

, the highest figure for a day since the pandemic began.

This was announced by official sources to

Clarín

.

In this way, the country added more than 100,000 infected in just five days, in what is the worst week in the number of cases since the detection of the first positive in the national territory, at the beginning of March 2020.

Meanwhile, the federal forces that carried out the controls at the main entrances to the City of Buenos Aires

did not create infractions due to the limitations

on circulation decreed by the government, and the Minister of National Security, Sabina Frederic, considered that "the people were very respectful of the measure. "

"We were from 0 o'clock today until 6 o'clock making fixed controls in the main accesses to the city of Buenos Aires. There we had no violations, we have no contacts with the courts and the decision in general terms is to draw up an act of commitment in the cases of people who circulate without being essential or without the certificates, "said Frederic in dialogue with radio

La Red

.

The Ministry of Security agreed yesterday with the federal forces to intensify the measures "in the 31 municipalities of the Buenos Aires suburbs and in the accesses to the City of Buenos Aires to control compliance with the new traffic restriction measures arranged between 0 and 12 o'clock. 6.

Strong control of permits at Constitución station.

Photo: Luciano Thieberger

Since midnight yesterday, the Federal Police controlled traffic on the Puente la Noria, Camino de la Ribera and the Pan-American Highway-Tigre branch (toll).

The Gendarmerie did it at the Western Access-Ituzaingó toll, the Dock Sud toll and the Pan-American Highway-Pilar branch (toll).

The Prefecture worked on the Pan-American Highway-ramal Campana (toll), Puente Pueyrredón and Puente Avellaneda.

And the Airport Security Police (PSA) was stationed on the Richieri Highway-Central Market toll.

For his part, President Alberto Fernández announced in the last hours the arrival of more Russian and Chinese vaccines in mid-April to “accelerate the rate of vaccination” and appealed to social conscience to respect the restriction measures.

On the other hand, through the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo 'Wado' de Pedro, the national government called on the opposition to form a joint commission to monitor the evolution of the pandemic in the country.

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