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Covid-19: Argentina decrees a curfew

2021-04-08T00:16:30.908Z


A nighttime curfew will come into effect on Friday for three weeks in Argentina, for the first time in the country, hit by an exponential increase in contaminations with a new record of daily infections on Wednesday April 7, announced President Alberto Fernandez. Read also: Coronavirus: Argentina, model student, extends its policy of isolation “Traffic is prohibited between midnight and 6 am eve


A nighttime curfew will come into effect on Friday for three weeks in Argentina, for the first time in the country, hit by an exponential increase in contaminations with a new record of daily infections on Wednesday April 7, announced President Alberto Fernandez.

Read also: Coronavirus: Argentina, model student, extends its policy of isolation

“Traffic is prohibited between midnight and 6 am every day.

According to the jurisdictions, the authorities will be able to extend these hours only according to the specificities of each place ”

, declared the Head of State in a speech.

Alberto Fernandez's message was recorded from his official residence, where he observes quarantine after being himself infected with the coronavirus, despite a prior vaccination.

The curfew will not apply to the whole of Argentina.

It will concern the areas in which the epidemiological risk is the greatest, that is to say the large urban centers, in particular Buenos Aires and its periphery, where a third of the 45 million Argentines live.

Argentina on Wednesday recorded a second consecutive record of new cases, with 22,039 units in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health, after 20,870 the day before.

The total is over 2.45 million.

In the same 24-hour period, the country has deplored 199 new deaths, bringing the total death toll to 56,832.

Read also: Covid-19 in Argentina: cases explode in a slum in Buenos Aires

"Argentina has entered the second wave"

of the epidemic, said President Fernandez.

“In the past seven days alone, cases have increased 36% nationwide and 53% in the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires,”

he said.

Alberto Fernandez declared himself

"concerned about the social relaxation" which intervenes "in contradiction of all the protocols"

of security.

He called on the population to

"pay the greatest attention to the obligations of health precautions and to the protocols"

.

The president listed a series of measures that will be in effect

"from Friday April 9 to midnight to April 30"

.

In addition to the nighttime traffic ban, bars and restaurants will have to close at 11 p.m., one hour before the start of the curfew.

Social activities in private homes and meetings of more than 20 people outdoors in public spaces will be prohibited.

Game rooms, nightclubs and party venues will be closed.

Sports and recreational activities of more than 10 people in closed spaces are also suspended.

However, schools will remain open.

Public transport will be reserved for essential workers and the educational community.

Source: lefigaro

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