Elderly in residences suffer isolation due to the pandemic in Argentina

1The anxiety due to the fear of being infected and the loneliness caused by the lack of contact with relatives has caused problems of depression in the elderly in nursing homes.

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2 Elderly women rest during a break between activities at the Reminiscences nursing home in Tandil, Argentina, on March 4.

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3Only 12% of people over 60, the most vulnerable to the disease, have been vaccinated in Argentina.

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4A worker builds a transparent barrier so that visitors can see the elderly at the Reminiscences residence in Tandil, Argentina, this Monday.

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In Argentina, it is debated whether the country has already entered the second wave of infections and the authorities that govern the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires are trying to agree on whether it is necessary to apply new mandatory quarantine measures.

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6Ramiro Pisani holds the hand of his grandfather Pedro Aberastegui through a plastic sheath from outside a nursing home in Argentina.

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7Pandemic fatigue causes people in isolation to feel apathy, demotivation and mental exhaustion, due to the impact that the coronavirus has caused on their daily routines.

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8Experts warn that the second wave of the pandemic in Argentina will come without the population at greatest risk of complications and deaths having been protected with vaccines.

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9Arceli Armando watches her son greet her from outside the Reminiscencias nursing home, in the city of Tandil, Argentina, this Monday.

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10The city and province of Buenos Aires are the two jurisdictions where infections have escalated the most (90%) in the last two weeks and the Government itself is concerned that the dynamics of last year will be repeated.

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