Deputy Juan Manuel López, president of the Civic Coalition bloc, tested positive for coronavirus and in the face of this news, Máximo Kirchner and Sergio Massa, will have to isolate themselves because they are considered close contact, after participating in a meeting in the Chamber of Deputies.In this sense, the members of the opposition Mario Negri, Cristian Ritondo and Maximiliano Ferraro, deputies of Juntos por el Cambio, were isolated , who were also part of the meeting. For his part, the ucr referent from Mendoza, “a rapid test and a PCR was done and he was negative, but he is still going to isolate himself,” according to information from his environment.
In addition, the infected, was part last Wednesday of the opposition summit, so he also shared with Mauricio Macri and Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, but both leaders refuse to be isolated since from the environment of the communal chief of the City of Buenos Aires they maintain that it is not considered close contact because the infected “sat on the other side of a very wide table” , as would Macri, who would have been more than five meters away in a place that had the necessary ventilation to prevent new infections.
In this context, a communique released by the Chamber, reported: “On June 23, a meeting was held within the H. Chamber of Deputies between the President of the Chamber, Deputy Sergio Massa, and parliamentary authorities of the ruling party and the opposition.” And the document added: “The Medical Directorate of the H. Chamber of Deputies reports that, given the subsequent knowledge of a positive case of COVID-19 of one of the participants, it has been recommended that the members of that meeting isolate themselves in a preventive manner in compliance with the current protocol.” And he emphasized that “an Epidemiological Map has been drawn up in order to recognize the other close contacts of the positive case as suggested by the usual procedure of the HCDN in cases of this nature.”
