translated from Spanish: AMBA: Alberto Fernández welcomes Larreta and Kicillof to define quarantine

President Alberto Fernández, governor Bonaerense, Axel Kicillof and the head of Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, will meet today to discuss the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic and begin defining measures to mitigate contagion. Within a week of the expiry of the quarantine period and in coincidence with the increase in cases in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), the representatives will hold a meeting from 12.30 in the residence of Olivos, 95 days from established social, preventive and mandatory isolation. In this line President Fernández said that it will be a meeting to “make a decision” regarding the AMBA area, which brings together the City of Buenos Aires and 40 matches of the province of Buenos Aires, especially those of the conurbano.

Alberto Fernández with Larreta (left) and Kicillof (der)

“We agreed to meet on Monday the three of us to make a decision. We are in a very complicated situation,” said the head of state, last Saturday in connection with this meeting with Kicillof and Rodríguez Larreta.In the last week, the reports of the Ministry of Health of the Nation show an increase in contagion in the AMBA, which concentrates 93% of the country’s cases. Similarly, in recent days and to try to reduce people’s entry to the city of Buenos Aires, the three governments decided to strengthen police controls on public transport, especially trains, for use only by users who perform essential tasks. According to those reported by the Ministry of Transport of the Nation and the Ministry of Transport of the City, this objective was achieved by reducing the volume of users in intercity and underground trains and micros.

The province has shown its willingness to harden quarantine

Last Friday, Kicillof and Larreta formed a technical table between the two jurisdictions to analyze day by day the occupied hospital beds, the speed of the contagion curve, social circulation and mortality. Most of the rest of the country is in a phase of social, preventive and compulsory estrangement, with the release of much of the activities and services, due to the notorious decrease in coronavirus cases in recent weeks. The Bonaerenses authorities, a district that in recent days has become the most confirmed cases in the country, have been emphatically in the need to tighten control measures in the city circulation. In this vein, the Deputy Minister of Health of Bonaerense, Nicolas Kreplak, commented moments ago that “if we do nothing to avoid the amount of contagion, in 30 days the system collapses”.
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