President Alberto Fernández is meeting with the governors of the 24 provinces in Quinta de Olivos with the aim of defining the mandatory quarantine for all Argentines. The announcement is expected to be after 20 hours, when the meeting ends and the details with which total isolation will be decreed will be completed.
I met with @horaciorlarreta in my office to discuss the latest actions we are taking together to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus. In adversity we must be more united than ever. pic.twitter.com/tYQ0s7ZK8T— Alberto Fernández (@alferdez)
March 18, 2020
At this hour, and tied to possible changes by the government communication team, it would be through a press conference and not a national network, as speculated at the beginning of the day. In the meeting with the provincial chiefs, the date of the beginning of the isolation – 20 March at midnight – and the end of the measure – 31 March – would be defined.
The goal is to flatten the spread curve of the virus, which already registers 97 infected people in the country with 3 fatalities, all with previous medical alterations.
