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Above the barrier of 10,000 daily cases, Argentina tries to face the Covid-19 pandemic, which seems to register its worst days in the country. The country is already in the ranked 11 of the nations with the highest number of infections, with 380,292, below Chile. But after five months since the virus arrived in the country, on March 3, it is striking that it is not until August that infections are increasing rapidly. Experts reply that it is about the long quarantine.
They are already more than 160 days in quarantine, although everything has had to be flexible due to the amount of time. In fact, the President for the first time preferred this Friday afternoon not to make a televised announcement informing about the changes to come and the prolongation of confinement. This time it was done through a statement. “We did it so as not to bore and show something different”, they pointed out from the environment of the president to La Nación.
On Wednesday the cases in the last 24 hours reached 10,550 and on Thursday 10,104. Deaths also peaked on Monday, with 380 deaths related to the virus. Till the date, the ICU bed occupancy rate is 59.2%.
“What is happening is that having put such a strict quarantine at the beginning of the pandemic, this led to the case peaks not occurring in a single moment, but they were being distributed. Then, from that point on, what is the occurrence in the number of cases was stopped “, he explains to Third the director of the Argentine Epidemiological Research Institute, Roberto Chuit.
Stella maimone, director of the country’s Infection Control and Epidemiology advisory group, explains that the quarantine did serve initially to prepare the system, but told Third than “As of June, the cases begin to increase because there are other needs. There came a time when, especially in the province of Buenos Aires, businesses began to open clandestinely in order to support their own employees and for the economy to start moving a little more. For that reason, at this moment we have a very upward curve ”.
The accelerated increase in infections has been registered these days mainly in the province of Buenos Aires, where about 16.6 million Argentines reside. 62% of infections in the country occur in this province, where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line. The Secretary of Access to Health of Argentina, Carla Vizzotti, has indicated that hospitalization in intensive care beds continues with “some stability” in the country, although “In the province of Buenos Aires there has been an increase in consultations and income in recent days.”
There was low compliance with what were the general quarantine processes. There were several reports that spoke of people’s mobility and low compliance, which is that for several weeks now, the province of Buenos Aires, the first known cordon and the second cordon, has been producing practically between 60% and 80% of the cases that occur in the country.
Roberto Chuit, director of the Argentine Epidemiological Research Institute.
On Thursday the province registered more than 6 thousand cases a day. The Buenos Aires Vice Minister of Health, Nicolas Kreplak, indicated this Friday that despite the fact that the province is in a complicated situation, “Comparatively, it is fine because the health system prepared a lot.” In addition, he assures that the openings and marches that have taken place in recent weeks against judicial reform, have influenced these increases.
But although there is a certain mess in the capital, it is in other provinces of the interior where the virus is gaining strength. “We had provinces that did not have Covid-19, that there was no community circulation and at this time different provinces are beginning to have community transmission and that is related to openings and lack of care,” says Maimone who explains that the reopening, in the capital, for example, does not generate an increase in cases “in the sense that more businesses are opened or more people circulate, the fundamental problem I think is in the means of transport and in people’s behavior. But you can’t live in quarantine, ”he says.
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