Alberto Fernández asked to continue treatment in 2021: “Although we have the vaccine, the coronavirus has not ended” | the Chronicle

President Alberto Fernandez thanked the health workers for the work done in 2020 and also called on the whole of society to continue in 2021 “Care” because “the pandemic has not ended, although we now have the vaccine ” against coronavirus.

In a video posted to his official Twitter account minutes after the start of the year, he greeted Argentines and devoted much of the post to sharing a review of what has been done in 2020 to deal with the pandemic and He stressed that the objective for the year which began today will be to “vaccinate the population”.

“Happy New Year everyone”, Alberto Fernández wrote and added: “Thanks to everyone’s commitment, we were able to reduce the impact of the virus and the consequences that we had estimated that this virus would have when it all started.”

“We have also done this thanks to the excellent work and enormous effort of the health workers in our country. To them, all my gratitude “, he pointed out.

In this sense, he continued
: “To every doctor, every doctor, every nurse, every nurse, every therapist. To all professionals in the health system, whether public or private. All of them put the bodies of their compatriots in this pandemic. Many even gave their lives to this task. We will be eternally grateful to them ”, added.

In the video, which was recorded yesterday afternoon, he detailed:
“We are building and equipping hospitals in record time; we have increased intensive care beds across the country; our industries have reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the health care system and of our people; we make respirators; we are developing tests to detect the virus; and we organize ourselves so that no one misses a plate of food on their table ”.

“We made sure that every compatriot could be treated in the health system. Today, in addition, we have the long-awaited vaccine “, he pointed out.

Regarding the national vaccination campaign, Alberto Fernández said that,

“Thanks to the work of everyone, our country is today one of the first to have started to vaccinate its population” and pointed it out as “a collective achievement”.

At the end of the audiovisual message of just over six minutes, the President declared:
“Thank you really. Thank you for taking care of yourself and for continuing to do so. Now we have the vaccine, but the pandemic is not over and we must continue to take care of ourselves, and so we can dedicate ourselves. to do what we do best: stand up and rebuild the country. “