Nicolás Kreplak raised the possibility of imposing new restrictions before the advance of the Delta variant of the coronavirus

Buenos Aires Minister of Health Nicolas kreplak raised on Monday the concern over the progress of the Delta variant in the province of Buenos Aires and across the country and said the government is joining efforts to delay community traffic of this new strain.

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Asked about possible new restrictions in the district if community transmission is confirmed, the official stressed that this will depend on the number of people arriving in intensive care or deaths from coronavirus. However, in The government hopes that with a large part of the population vaccinated, the point of having to take drastic measures will not be reached.

“We have seen in many countries of the world that vaccination is also effective for the Delta variant, there may be many cases but there is a much lower lethality because there are many vaccinated. This means that there can be many more cases without involving either intensive care hospitalizations or death, ”Kreplak said. “If that happens, maybe we can handle these cases and we can continue to recover activities and the economy as we expect“, He explained.

In addition, the person in charge of Buenos Aires underlined the work carried out by the provincial administration to “deal with the borders” and prevent this variant from continuing its expansion in the country. “We do a very intense job of monitoring those who enter and isolating the hotels, we have succeeded lower defaults to 7% insulation. We have had 23 cases since the start of the delta variant in the Province and 21 are travelers and 2 close contacts of them ”, detailed Kreplak.

In this sense, the Minister considered that August is “A key month” continue to apply second doses of vaccine and try to delay transmission. The goal is to deal with a possible third wave with more people immune. “In the province of Buenos Aires, we reach the 10 million people vaccinated with the first dose and we have 2,700,000 with the full regimen. We are moving forward in August, in addition to starting with the teenagers, the idea is to make a very big quantitative leap to complete the schedules with the second dose, ”he noted.

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This Tuesday begins the inoculation of the boys between 12 and 17 years old with risk factors across the country, following the official announcement of the Federal Health Council (Cofesa), with the application of the doses of the American laboratory Modern.

Although the agency, made up of the ministers of the nation’s and provincial health portfolios, officially launched the COVID-19 vaccination for adolescents between 12 and 17 years old with comorbidities on Tuesday, some districts have already started vaccination thereof. age group, as in the case of Neuquén and La Pampa.