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(CNN Spanish) - The dilemma is terrible.
It consists of saving human lives by shutting yourself up in confinement, or allowing people to work and risk dying.
Uruguay has been described as an “oasis” of the covid-19 pandemic. The note appeared in the Brazilian newspaper El Globo and was reviewed on May 21 in El País de Montevideo, the nation's first newspaper.
Brazil today exceeds 300,000 infected and 20,000 dead.
In the 1918 pandemic, incidentally, President Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves died, which shook the largest of the Ibero-American countries.
In Argentina, the newspaper Clarín recommends President Alberto Fernández to look at what the young Luis Lacalle Pou, the president of Uruguay, is doing, despite having come to power just 13 days after the first contagion was discovered.
What makes Uruguay different from Argentina and Brazil? Four measures:
1. Uruguay has chosen to inform the population with total transparency about the ravages and danger of the virus.
2. Make numerous tests to its inhabitants.
3. Do not impose mandatory confinement, but let citizens decide responsibly what to do with their lives.
4. And, therefore, not to repress those who are on the streets
That itself:
· Banned classroom classes.
· Closed the borders.
· And removed mass events.
The combination of these measures has made the country a model for the area. Perhaps the "oasis" is not exaggerated.
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