08/01/2020 - 13:37
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The extension of the quarantine to stop the coronavirus announced on Friday by Alberto Fernández, flanked by the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof, had the already classic comparative charts with the region and some provinces. But a day later the controversy came.
Among the charts, Alberto Fernández showed how the number of infections in Mendoza had grown when he went from Mandatory Preventive Social Isolation (ASPO) to Mandatory Preventive Social Distancing (DSPO).
Stopping at the graph of the province, Fernández said: "I am sure that the desire of trusting in social responsibility has always been in the minds of all the governors. In the care that we all have to have, not only of ourselves but of on the other, because remember that asymptomatic people can spread without knowing it. I show this data, which is hard data so that we understand that removing the restriction on staying at home has these costs if we are not responsible. I insist, these are the costs we pay if we are not responsible . "
One by one the graphics that Alberto Fernández showed.
Under the graph that the President exhibited, the National Directorate of Epidemiology and Strategic Information was listed as a source of information with data extracted from the SNVS, a national software that involves Epidemiological Surveillance systems in the same format, establishing a Surveillance Network , as described by the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
But this Saturday the radical governor of Mendoza, Rodolfo Suárez, crossed the data provided by the President. "It is important to emphasize that the decisions we are taking are based on the Mendoza data, and not on the inaccurate assessments that the President presented about our province, in his press conference yesterday," Suarez published on his Twitter account.
The real data reflects that in Mendoza the contagion curve, with the economy running, was less than that of the AMBA and CABA, in the context of isolation and confinement.
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"The real data reflects that in Mendoza the contagion curve, with the economy running, was less than that of the AMBA and CABA, in the context of isolation and confinement," the Mendoza governor continued on social media.
In addition, the provincial president attached a table of the number of cases per week per million inhabitants, where Mendoza is located very far from the number of cases in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) and also in the City of Buenos Aires.
Despite the large number of infections in July, the sidewalks of the center of Mendoza are full. (Photo: Nicolas Rios / Los Andes)
It is not the first crossing between that province and the national government. In June, the President announced that he would not finance what in Mendoza considers the "work of the century", in reference to the Portezuelo del Viento dam, which is in the bidding process, and the tension grew.
It is a work that is part of the compensation that Mendoza received for the damages caused by the industrial promotion regimes in the neighboring provinces and that both former presidents Néstor Kirchner and Mauricio Macri promised by law to pay, with ratification of the Supreme Court.
"I am not going to finance a work that is questioned by four provinces," Alberto Fernández had said in reference to the financing of 1,000 million dollars that the Nation must give to that province.
"We are going to assert our rights," warned Mendoza Governor Rodolfo Suarez, who is now again criticizing the government.
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