Alberto Fernández and his entourage were preventively isolated after their return from Peru

President Alberto Fernández and the delegation that traveled to Peru to attend the inauguration of President Pedro Castillo have been isolated as a preventive measure.

Presidential sources assured Bugle that despite the fact that the delegation is dispensed by the DNU, the decision of the Presidential Medical Unit is that isolation is respected “at least until Tuesday”.

On that day, the members of the delegation will be re-examined and, in the event that no official shows symptoms and a new PCR test is negative, it may be considered completed.

Close to the Head of State, they indicated that the measure This is due to the health situation in Peru and the advance of the Delta variant. for which the government has decided to restrict the return of Argentines to the country. “Although we haven’t broken the bubble at any point and all of the massive events have taken place outdoors, we prefer to be careful,” they stressed.

“We arrived yesterday-Thursday from Peru and the pandemic situation still exists, so it is convenient for all of us who are traveling to stay isolated for a few days,” the president said this Friday during a virtual event for the presentation of MICA . digital environment.

Alberto Fernández traveled with Chancellor Felipe Solá; the Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta; the Secretaries General of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello, and Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Beliz; and the national deputy Eduardo Valdes. The first lady, Fabiola Yañez, and the presidential spokesperson also traveled.

Fernandez He returned Thursday at 11:30 p.m. from his Peru tour, where he participated in the care of his partner Pedro Castillo and will remain isolated in the Quinta de Olivos while defining the change of Cabinet forced by the departure of the Minister of Defense, Agustín Rossi, and that of Social Development, Daniel Arroyo, for their respective candidacies in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires.

The presidency specified that both the head of state and his entourage “are monitored by the presidential medical unit” until the end of isolation.

During his trip, the president met Castillo on Wednesday afternoon, who repeatedly called him “My Brother Alberto” throughout the meeting.

The head of state also held meetings alongside the Peruvian presidential party. One was with his Ecuadorian counterpart, Guillermo Lasso, who had invited him to Quito for the month of August. The other, with the Colombian Ivan Duque, with whom he smoothed out the existing roughness. Alberto F. had criticized the police repression of demonstrations by young people in Colombian streets and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bogotá rejected these criticisms.

In addition, he met the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, and his friend and former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales.

Fernández traveled to Peru not only to ratify his support for Castillo, but also to solicit votes to chair the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). At that time, he was supported by various governments, from Colombia to Venezuela.

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