04/14/2021 12:42 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/14/2021 12:47 PM
This Wednesday, the Ministers of Health of the Nation and the City offered press conferences related to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic and agreed on the importance of
reinforcing care in family and social gatherings inside the home
, including the need of the
use of the chinstrap
in these situations.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, assured that Argentina is experiencing a "critical moment" and that the situation "is delicate" due to the increase in covid-19 infections, and asked the population
to "only go out to work and take the boys to school "
.
"Now winter is coming, we are going to have more meetings, more situations in closed spaces, so that is where we need to
wear the chinstrap,
even with the people we love, whom we trust, and even with whom we live
, because if we are going to Going out to do different activities, on the way back we may have had contact with someone who is asymptomatic or with someone who starts symptoms in the next 48 hours, and we are at risk of having contracted the virus, "explained the head of the national health portfolio.
In her speech, Vizzotti said that "until a few weeks ago and still now" they invite her to participate in
barbecues
and social gatherings, and said: "It is not evil."
With the people close to the guard, he explained, and that should be avoided.
Vizzotti insisted that in family settings "we lower our attention" on care.
AFP photo.
Vizzotti considered that it is in moments of informality and trust that
attention
ceases
, because those close to them are seen healthy and they are trusted.
Along the same lines, the Minister of Health of the City, Fernán Quirós, pointed out that in meetings with the Nation and Province they agreed that, these days, "the main transmission mechanism has to do with
family,
social and work
encounters
in
places closed
, little ventilated and
without using a chinstrap
".
Quirós also emphasized the climate, on the coldest or rainy days that force to move the meetings inside the homes.
"We have become accustomed to not wearing the chinstrap indoors and that is what we have to change,
the interiors are places to wear a chinstrap,
" he emphasized.
Consulted by
Clarín
about the position of the City on the recommendation of the Ministry of Health of the Nation to use the chinstrap at home, even with the people with whom one lives, from the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health they indicated: "We
accompany what he said Carla
, taking into account the social internment you mentioned ".
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