Guido Carelli Lynch
07/23/2020 - 20:24
- Clarín.com
- Politics
With the horizon of more enabled activities planned for next week and records of infections of Covid-19 despite the strict quarantine from July 1 to 17, neither in the Province nor in the City are they currently considering the option of launching back . In Olivos they are more cautious. "That is always latent . This is day by day ”, they point out near the President. In public the three jurisdictions had anticipated that they would return to a stricter phase if necessary, but so far they prefer not to rush.
The head of the City Government and the Buenos Aires governor for now prefer to wait. Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof talked via WhatsApp, but they did not touch that possibility. In the environment of the former, they assure that they would not be willing to enable this discussion or sit at a table without first having information collected and analyzed from more days to evaluate the results.
The Buenos Aires Executive will only meet with its small table over the weekend to discuss the first numbers. “It is difficult to draw conclusions with 2 or 3 days. We have to wait for the first ten or fifteen days to pass to watch the series and understand the behavior of all the data, ”they say in the City cabinet.
An image of the last solo encounter between Larreta and Kicillof.
In the Buenosairean government , that the next week will authorize the return of liberal activities, they do not consider for the moment a reverse gear either. Near the governor they remembered the words of Kicillof on Friday, during the announcement of the relaxation of the isolation. "Axel said the new quarantine scheme would be intermittent . The opening schedule remains the same, " they explained.
The provincial vice minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak , however, warned of that possibility. "If the curve increases and we see a risk of collapse, we will go back," he said this morning.
The official also pointed out the peak in Villa 31 as the cause of the escalation of infections in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area (AMBA). “The increase has never stopped being since the outbreak began in Villa 31 . What there were are periods of more or less speed. In late June and early July, speed slowed; but these days they make us think that the speed of contagion increased again, ”he said.
Larreta did not communicate this week with Alberto Fernández . So far there are no meetings scheduled between the President and the AMBA district chiefs.
The Government admits that the rise in the number of infected, which registered 6,127 new cases this Thursday, is no longer explained by the delays in loading data over the weekend. However, they rest their relative tranquility on two indicators . First, the case fatality rate , which remains low, at around 1.8 %. They also point out that the intensive care bed unit system is still far from saturated.
Yes, the capacity in the Buenos Aires hospitals Santojanni and Argerich was completed, but the City referred those patients. Kreplak, meanwhile, agreed that the system is "60%" and acknowledged that "if necessary, pediatric beds could be used for adults."
In private, several officials from the three jurisdictions argue that behind the decision to relax there is political and economic motivation . "The strict quarantine was no longer being followed," they argue.