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Furies and fake news with the coronavirus in Argentina: seven months of quarantine in 20 "official" phrases

2020-10-21T18:42:51.433Z


The unfulfilled forecasts and pifies of the main officials, while the country has already exceeded one million infections.


10/21/2020 2:53 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 10/21/2020 2:53 PM

The coronavirus pandemic surprised the national government, which went from denying the possibility of contagion to decreeing quarantine and exposing itself in the media with unfortunate phrases, as a result of the viralization of false information about the virus.

In December 2019, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization, warned of the "pandemic potential" of Covid-19.

And already in January of this year, a case of contagion in Brazil put the region on alert.

But in Argentina, the Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García, assured in an interview that

"we have no possibility"

that the virus will arrive soon and affect the country massively.

Two months later, after confirming the first infections and the first death in our territory, Alberto Fernández decrees social, preventive and mandatory isolation.

But in addition to the contradictions of the Executive, the President was also the victim of a fake news, about a supposed recommendation of the WHO to drink hot drinks because

"the heat kills the virus

.

"

President Alberto Fernández at Hospital Churruca.

Photo: Luciano Thieberger.

"The Swedish case" was another of the unfortunate examples of the Argentine president in an attempt to defend the

"strict quarantine"

, which prompted a response from the Swedish embassy stating that it is "difficult to make comparisons" and with a strong defense of the sanitary measures imposed.

On Monday, October 19, after 7 months of quarantine, Argentina reached 590 deaths per million inhabitants and surpassed Sweden.

According to official figures from the Ministry of Health, 12,982 new coronavirus infections were registered and the country has exceeded one million infected since the pandemic began.

Ginés González García, Minister of Health of the Nation, spoke of "mass vaccination" for March 2021. Photo Lucia Merle.

Faced with the uncertainty of society and the crisis, the leadership continues to make statements that generate expectations, such as the promise of Ginés González García that

in "March we are going to have

the vaccine en

masse

.

"

Will it be right this time?

However, from the City of Buenos Aires prudence was chosen, through the voice of its Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, who asked to wait for the results of "phase 3 studies" to determine the effectiveness of the vaccine.

Source: clarin

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