The Deputy Minister of Health of Buenos Aires, Nicolás Kreplak, confirmed that in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) there is “a consistent drop” in coronavirus infections and described as “an interesting and intelligent strategy” to bring forward the school winter holidays.” The cases in the AMBA have yielded, fortunately, the last few days, above all, we are seeing a fall that is consistent, not only in number of cases, but with respect to several indicators we continue, “he said in a dialogue with Radio Mitre.
In addition, he maintained that this drop “is already beginning to be seen also in the provincial interior; anyway, in the interior everything depends a lot on how the restrictions were applied in each place”, and in that sense, he added that “not everywhere they had the same level of care, that is why we believe that the system of phases is very wise, because in some places you have to have more restrictions”. The official analyzed the causes of the drop in infections and determined that “it is always difficult to know the exact causality, but there is an interesting correlation and we see that between seven and 14 days after the taking of a restrictive measure the impact begins to occur.” In this context, he added: “We see that with the stronger closure there was a brake on the abrupt rise in cases. But it is obvious that this has two sides: the positive, that with a strong closure the cases fall, and the negative, that when you return to a greater activity the fear is that in a week they will rise again”.
He also highlighted: “We also have in favor of the fact that we are vaccinating more than 100,000 people per day, and this is going to have a strong impact on the number of infections, but above all on the severity of the cases in the coming weeks” and stressed that “we are seeing a lethality that has been falling: we went from 3.5 deaths per 100 infected in October of last year , and now it’s 1.5”. On face-to-face classes, he said that “hopefully we can return in August to face-to-face classes in the province, we have to achieve it. I think the vaccination campaign is going to help us a lot.” Finally, he referred to the purchase of Covaxin vaccines: “It is the last link in a negotiation that we began last December,” and he estimated that “anmat will approve it shortly.” He concluded: “We will also have to wait for India to lift its restrictions, as it does not export vaccines today, which is why we cannot say precisely when we will receive them.”
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