Even without the official discharge, Alberto Fernández had lunch by zoom with Joe Biden's envoy

Natasha Niebieskikwiat

04/13/2021 12:13 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 04/13/2021 2:58 PM

The reception at the Quinta de Olivos that

Alberto Fernandez

gave this Tuesday

to

Juan González

, the Special Assistant to President

Joe Biden

, changed the format.

Until 12

o'clock

, with

Biden's envoy already on Argentine soil

, the President had not yet received the medical discharge of his positive COVID, diagnosed last Friday 2.

For that reason, it was decided that the meeting with 

Gonzalez,

who is also the Principal Director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere, was a special lunch and talk by

zoom

.

The format was 

half face-to-face and half by zoom

: Foreign Minister Felipe Solá was with González, who travels on his tour of Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay with Julie Chung, Acting Undersecretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the State Department.

And Fernández was interviewed by zoom.

Gonzalez's visit is key to the beginning of

new relations with the United States,

to which Kirchnerism has been showing signs of rapprochement.

Still, there are many differences over

ties with Venezuela, China, and Russia

.

At this time there is also a claim to the Government of Argentine-American businessmen

against the Price Care program

and other state controls.

They will see Gonzalez on Wednesday.

It is important to the President and the Foreign Minister to address a request for the United States to

export vaccines to Argentina

and their support to the Monetary Fund.

A source also assured that González would dine with several legislators, including

Sergio Massa

.

But this remains extremely hermetic.

It is unknown why the presidential doctor did not discharge

Fernandez after 10 days of his

coronavirus

infection

despite being vaccinated.

One source mentioned that the President may still have "a high viral load."

The last medical part of this Monday pointed out the following:

"The President of the Nation, Doctor D. Alberto Ángel FERNANDEZ, is evolving favorably, with vital signs within normal parameters. He continues to comply with the mandatory isolation and under strict medical control by the PRESIDENTIAL MEDICAL UNIT (UMP). will report its evolution daily. "