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Coronavirus in Argentina: Malena Galmarini revealed that in Aysa they put "a little more chlorine" in the water "just in case"

2020-06-01T13:30:28.062Z


The head of the company said so despite clarifying that "there is no study that says that the coronavirus passes through the water."


05/31/2020 - 16:07

  • Clarín.com
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An unusual measure was taken by Malena Galmarini, the owner of Aysa, the company in charge of providing water and sewer services for the City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires suburbs. As revealed in a television interview, Sergio Massa's wife said that they added "more chlorine" to the water to prevent the spread of the coronavirus , despite the fact that there are no investigations that indicate that the virus is transferred by this route.

"When we make the water drinkable, we are adding a little more chlorine ," the director of the state company told C5N . He added: "There is no study that has said that the coronavirus passes through water, but just in case we did it ."

The situation is, at least, striking, since there is no scientific evidence to show that the measure is effective in the context of the pandemic. Conversely, a higher intake of chlorine in the human body could be harmful, if it were much higher than usual doses.

Chlorination is one of the processes that water goes through in its purification, as described on Aysa's own official website. The amount of chlorine added to the water in that treaty is not specified.

Galmarini also took advantage of the television interview to highlight "the lack of basic sanitary infrastructure, water and sewers" that the country has, a situation that was even more exposed in the context of the pandemic. "Of the concession area that Aysa has, which are 14 million users, there are around 2 million that still do not have a network . No network, that is, they carry water," he admitted.

And he said that to the places where the water has not yet reached, they are carrying "tank trucks and drums."

In addition, in dialogue with Télam , the head of Argentine Water and Sanitation, shot against the health management of former Buenos Aires governor María Eugenia Vidal, who said that she did not finish building four hospitals because she preferred to fix the ones that were already there. "It is not that they decided not to finish or not open hospitals, because they also did not fix the 68 hospitals in the province , which remained in the same conditions," he assured.

"All the guards went and painted green apple, but they did not solve neither the human resources nor the debt with suppliers, nor the problems with the roofs," warned the head of Aysa, noting that "not only did the hospitals not open, but at the national level they degraded health by passing the Ministry to the secretariat. "

Regarding Aysa, Galmarini questioned that the company "was underfunded, overindebted and in deficit" and criticized that "it was virtually four years off."

"When Macri said that in four years he was going to give drinking water to 100% of the inhabitants and 75% of sewers, he was clearly lying, and that unfortunately he used as a workhorse in the electoral campaign, like the fact that he was to achieve zero poverty, "he recalled.

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