translated from Spanish: Tourism, colonies and more people in bars: Larreta announced new openings

The government of the City of Buenos Aires announces the new openings that it will carry out within the framework of the Mandatory Social Estating that governs from the beginning of November. The head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, explained that health data continue downwards, with R located below 1, public system intensive care beds at 24% and average weekly cases at 350. 

Now yes, as always, I start with the data.- The average number of new cases per day dropped from 450 to 350.
– The R is still below 1.
– The occupancy of intensive care beds in the public system fell from 30% to 24%. — Horacio Rodríguez Larreta ✋ (@horaciorlarreta)
November 27, 2020

At the beginning of the press conference, Larreta explained that the situation in the porteño centre “constitutes a situation of health risk”. Referring to the return to school, the mayor emphasized that “today each student has access to face-to-face instances to close the year” and then elaborated on a three-axis plan aimed at those who “failed to strengthen the contents necessary for the stage they are going through”. 

In this context, the plan will be that students in the last year of primary and secondary school will continue the assessment on a numerical scale, but for the rest a scale established as follows will be used: advanced, sufficient and in process. Those in the latter group will have support classes.

And the third axis is to advance the beginning of the school cycle: as we already tell you, the classes will start on February 17, to have more days that allow boys and girls to catch up with the contents that they could not incorporate in a virtual way. — Horacio Rodríguez Larreta ✋ (@horaciorlarreta)
November 27, 2020

In the summer there will be schools that combine “the teaching of content with sports and recreational activities”, Larreta reported.For tourism, the head of government advanced a test plan to those who arrive in the City at the Dellepiane bus station, the Convention Center and the Munich Building for those arriving by car and in Ezeiza for those who do so from abroad.

Bars will be able to extend the schedule and will no longer have to close at 1, as the schedule runs until 3. At the same time, the maximum capacity of people per table will go from 4 to 8.The outdoor meetings, which until now were 10 people, will be extended to 20. The measure will be for both public and private spaces. Cultural events may also host up to 500 people “as long as a capacity of 4 square meters per person can be guaranteed,” Larreta said.

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