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07/12/2020 - 15:17
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Axel Kicillof is cautious, looks at numbers, reviews projections and on that basis considers that the COVID-19 case curve, which last week stopped climbing exponentially, will continue at those levels, which will allow the AMBA to return to a more flexible quarantine .
This Monday morning, surely in the Buenos Aires government offices on Uspallata street, the Buenos Aires governor will meet with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. They will meet hand in hand, without ministers or advisers .
They will do so to review numbers and begin to define how the next stage will continue when, on Friday, the 17th, the fortnight of strict quarantine, phase 1 reinforced. "Design the next stage" , summarize Clarín from the Kicillof environment.
With caution, attentive to what happens this week, in the Buenosairean Government they anticipate that the intention is "to return to as we were before July 1" , when after an increase of confirmed, deceased and the occupation of UTI beds, it was resolved step back into openings.
In La Plata they believe that "this week's numbers will be consolidated", in the order of the 2,000 confirmed per day in the Province , although they clarify at all times that one must "be cautious" because the pandemic is unpredictable. In the City, the rise was less and that is why they project more openings, although they warn that they will do so in agreement with Kicillof.
"We allow ourselves to be optimistic because the more rigid scheme paid off ," they affirm in the government and maintain that "mobility fell" and that "society responded with great responsibility and solidarity."
Strictly speaking, although the estimates are not always met, the confirmations of the last week are the product of the pre-hardening stage, therefore, the week that begins now should register the same figures or even some decrease.
It is the reading made by the national government, which believes that the strictest quarantine should show a "decrease in the number of cases and a number of critical cases admitted," as specified by the Deputy Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti. That should be observed in the next 14 or 20 days .
On Saturday, Kicillof reviewed with his team the evolution of the quarantine during the last week and outlined the panorama that he will share this Monday with Rodríguez Larreta.
He also has an act scheduled with Jorge Macri , mayor of Vicente López, one of the mayors most critical of the governor's handling of the pandemic, although, they detail in La Plata, he does not question Alberto Fernández with whom he met in Olivos. last week.
At noon, Kicillof will be in an activity with Macri for the delivery of artificial respirators and on Tuesday he will make a tour of the isolation centers in La Plata, along with Julio Garro , mayor of La Plata , also from PRO , one of the interlocutors between the governor and the mayors of JxC.
With Larreta, despite different visions and approaches in various sections of the quarantine, they have fluid dialogue and share one criterion: this section of the quarantine was successful, served to flatten the curve and offers the conditions to return to a scheme of more openings and flexibilities.
Then, differences appear about what and how , but in the Buenos Aires government they understand that the characteristics of CABA and the conurbano are different and as long as the decision of one does not seriously affect the other, they may present different schemes, although within an opening .
As happened in the last extensions, Kicillof and Larreta agree hand in hand on the main terms of the new stage and, later, Alberto Fernández joins.
What is Coronavirus? How is it spread and what are its symptoms?
Watch the specialBehind it is the general concept of pendular quarantine: that a stricter stage can be accompanied by an opening and that, in the event of an aggravation of the pandemic, it can return to a strict stage again.
This week, after an acceleration in the occupation of ICU beds, that key indicator to measure the resilience of the health system , showed signs of stabilizing.
On Sunday, according to the daily Health report, the number of critical internees for COVID-19 is 701, 91.5% of them in the AMBA, which shows that the occupation of ICU beds is 58.2% in the metropolitan area.
