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President Alberto Fernández stands out as an example of a Latin American head of state who has handled the crown pandemic in a powerful way. Argentina was one of the first countries on the continent to close its border and introduce a strict quarantine. Unlike Brazil, where Corona president and researcher Jair Bolsonaro encourages people to continue their lives as usual, Argentina has acted very differently.
Brazil approaches 12,000 deaths while Argentina only has 305. If it is calculated on the number of deaths per million inhabitants, Argentina has eight times fewer deaths than its neighboring country. In addition, compared to other neighboring countries, Brazil stands out with 36 times more deaths than Paraguay and eleven times more than Uruguay.
“It can recover from a reduction in GDP, but it cannot recover from death,” said Peronist leader Alberto Fernández.
The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernández.
Photo: Esteban Collazo / AFP
Its first measurements have flattened the infectious curve and doubled the number of infections every 25 days, while in some regions of Brazil it doubles every five days.
Argentina’s success is considered be the ability of the 61-year-old president to gather parties and governors under the same banner. She coordinates the campaign against the covid-19 in the capital, Buenos Aires, and has brought it to the country.
In Brazil it has been the opposite.
Bolsonaro has not communicated with his message outside the capital, Brazil, and so far, two ministers have resigned or been fired during the crown pandemic. What also differs is that Alberto Fernández has access to the well-organized Peronist party that reaches most of the social classes in the country. Bolsonaro has no party of his own and has become hostile to the country’s top governors.
Last week, Alberto Fernández was criticized when businessmen complained about the financial consequences of the strict quarantine. Then the president took the leaf out of his mouth and said that if the country eased the quarantine, Argentina could become Sweden. At a press conference he compared the figures for Sweden and Norway and made it sound as if Sweden was as irresponsible as Brazil and Norway as responsible Argentina.
– Norway introduced a strict quarantine. Sweden did not. Sweden now has 14 times more deaths than Norway, Alberto Fernández said.
Criticism has received the Swedish embassy in Argentina to write a message on its website where the embassy explains that the Swedish line differs only in three aspects from the rest of the world.
– We have not introduced mandatory isolation, we have not forced the closure of commercial activities and we have not closed preschools or elementary schools.
The embassy believes that the decision to keep the social sectors open “is based on public health considerations rather than financial interests.” According to the embassy, the fact that Swedish schools have been kept open has produced positive effects because parents working in the health care system have not had to stay home and care for their children. “These measures also strengthen gender equality,” writes one.
What Alberto Fernández does not have He managed to protect the municipalities of Buenos Aires, where a quarter of a million of the capital’s population lives. Due to the repair of a water plant, 45,000 Villa 31 residents were without water for ten days. When city dwellers were unable to wash, the number of infected people increased from a handful to 219 in a short time.
DN has requested the Swedish ambassador in Buenos Aires.
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