Coronavirus: in the Province they evaluate restricting recreational activities

03/29/2021 11:10

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 03/29/2021 11:10 AM

The Chief of Cabinet of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, Enio García, announced on Monday that

the Province "evaluates" restricting recreational activities

before the arrival of the second wave of coronavirus.

The official's sayings come after the announcements of the

new measures promoted by the national government

that seek to stop the advance of the disease.  

"

The occupancy of intensive care beds increased

and it could be said that the second wave began; it is a trend that does not see the possibility of decreasing at least in the short term," Garcia said Monday, in an interview with AM750.

The sanitarista commented that other indicators also increased, such as the positivity of the tests in the province of Buenos Aires, for which he admitted that

new restrictions

are being

evaluated

in order to flatten the contagion curve.

The focus would be on

recreational activities in closed spaces

.

"There is evidence that frequenting closed spaces does not collaborate. For there

it is not necessary to close the bars,

 but to try to ensure that the assistance is on sidewalks, terraces or open spaces," said the official.

García specified that the objective would be to apply "a series of

staggered measures

to try and see how the curve impacts."

In addition, he added that they seek "something more staggered to avoid sanitary measures such as those adopted by Chile, which last week began a large quarantine."

The province advances with the vaccination plan.

Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.

The official confirmed that

cases of coronavirus with the variants of Manaus and the United Kingdom

that are more contagious have

already been detected

in the province

and remarked that for now

there is no "community circulation"

, although he did not rule out that this could happen.

Regarding greater restrictions for those who return from abroad, García admitted that "

there is a complex situation

" since "there are tourists who need to return." 

In any case, he clarified that "you have to be careful that when they return, regardless of the result, they have to comply with a strict isolation of 14 days without leaving home, if it is possible in a hotel, the better, but that it is fulfilled. with that quarantine. " 

The advancement of vaccination

When asked about the vaccination campaign, the Buenos Aires official affirmed that the Province has the "

capacity to expand capacity when more doses arrive

."

"It is difficult for one to open posts if there are no more doses. If we have the most predictable supply, one can plan better and open more posts to reinforce," he said.

"We had peaks of more than

60 thousand vaccinated in one day

, and we can expand that, to the extent that they give us more predictability about the arrival of the doses," he said.

García's statements are in addition to those of the Buenos Aires Vice Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, who during the weekend had anticipated that restrictions related to "

recreation and leisure

"

are being studied

.

Although, he clarified that

it will be sought not to affect "work

" or "productive".

On Sunday, the National Government suggested nighttime restrictions in an official message provided by the Chief of Staff, Santiago Cafiero and the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti.

The national communiqué suggested nighttime restrictions for the different provinces, taking into account the "risk parameters" in each situation.

With information from Télam.

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