translated from Spanish: La Matanza strengthens controls on its limits with CABA for peak contagion

Ginés González García had already advanced it some time ago: the peak of COVID-19 contagions in our country would arrive in the first fortnight of June, so the most complicated districts (City and Province of Buenos Aires) try to arm themselves before it arrives. In this context, Fernando Espinoza, mayor of La Matanza – the most populous municipality of the GBA – reinforces controls for the date.

“We are going to continue to work together responsibly and in solidarity because the most difficult days are to come, so we have to reflect together and see what steps we need to take,” he said in meeting with security authorities.

The National Gendarmerie arrived at La Matanza to stay. In order to optimize the controls we held a meeting with Luís Morales, Undersecretary of Federal Intervention and Rubén Yavorsky, Commander major of the force. pic.twitter.com/pJ9kEQc2fK—Fernando Espinoza (@FerEspinozaOK)
May 20, 2020

Together with the Under-Secretary of Federal Intervention of the Ministry of National Security Luis Morales, the Major Commander of Gendarmería Nacional Rubén Yavorski and the head of the Department of La Matanza, Walter Fernández Mamani, analyzed the work that has been being carried out and sought improvements to make. For the community chief “don’t relax with quarantine”: “In no country in the world, quarantine is so widely made more flexible until after the surge of contagion has passed.” The idea is to strengthen controls on district streets and on borders with CABA, where the most infected people are infected.

Daily monitoring takes place in the 17 cities of La Matanza, with operations on the pedestrian and vehicular traffic during the 24 hours. This is coupled with strict health monitoring of the more than 10,000 matanceros that arrived from the outside. According to Espinoza, statistical analysis would show that La Matanza is well below the contagions of the national average and the provincial average.

Original source in Spanish