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Sabina Frederic endorsed the intermittent closures: 'It is a good scheme for our country'

2021-06-06T04:42:55.311Z


The Minister of National Security said that the strict confinement of the last days had "a high compliance."


06/05/2021 11:48

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 06/05/2021 12:31 PM

At the beginning of a new weekend of strict confinement established by the national government to face the second wave of coronavirus in Argentina, the Minister of Security of the Nation, Sabina Frederic, endorsed this Saturday the idea of ​​establishing 

intermittent closures

, considering that "it is 

a good scheme

for our country." 


Regarding the option of establishing hard restrictions for nine days and then 12 days with more relaxed measures, he specified: "My personal evaluation is that this

worked very well

, there was high compliance. It seems to me that it is a good scheme for our country. ".

"The evaluation that we make, you have to see these two days, is a

really very significant decrease in circulation

, compared to the phase prior to this decree (presidential that expires on June 11)," he said.

Along these lines, the national official indicated that the measures that will govern from June 12 will be the result of an evaluation that "is the responsibility of the specialists, the health ministry" and the decision of President Alberto Fernández.

“You have to see what happens in these two days, but there was a really very significant decrease in circulation.

It was 66% on the first Saturday, which was May 22, and reached 77%, "he stressed.

For Frederic, "there was a very high compliance of the population in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA)", and added: "Much of the compliance is due to the collective conscience, which is the one invoked by the President of the Nation and which is the only one that allows us to take care of ourselves ".

The Minister of National Security stressed that "there was very high compliance" with the strict confinement.

Photo: Nievas

The role of the security forces 


The national official highlighted the role of the security forces in the controls, but considered that "without that collective awareness it would have been very difficult to lower the number of infections (from Covid-19), which is what we saw this week."

In detailing the controls taking place this weekend at the AMBA, Frederic indicated that they include 75 points that have the presence of 11,500 members of the federal forces.

"Ten of those 75 controls are in key places such as Puente Pueyrredón, Puente La Noria, the Richieri Highway or the tolls of routes 8 and 9 and the Panamericana," he explained.

In reference to the degree of control that is applied in each of the reference points, he highlighted: "We have indicated to the forces that they are exhaustive in the control, they are regulating it too. We do not want to regret cases of institutional violence such as we've had it last year. "

Frederic referred to the important delays that were registered in some of the operations that were carried out at the beginning of the strict confinement, and assured that "it should not happen", which is why it was sought to "redefine the controls so that the fluidity is the greatest possible".

"These controls were not made by us (federal forces). They were implemented by the province of Buenos Aires, which has the power to put them where they think they are needed. I did take care of communicating with the Province to notify them that there was no space for the circulation of ambulances and health personnel. That should not happen, "he said. 

Finally, he referred to the link he maintains with the Buenos Aires Minister of Security, Sergio Berni, and asked to "close this matter" of the crossings between the two.

"The truth is that we have worked with the province in everything that has been asked of us. We have carried out joint operations in these days with the Police and the Road Safety Agency," he concluded.


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Source: clarin

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