At the start of the new year, Alberto Fernández asked “to continue taking care of us” because “the pandemic has not ended”

President Alberto Fernandez thanked the work done during the 2020 by health workers and also asked society as a whole that in 2021, continue to “pay attention” because “the pandemic has not ended, even though we now have the vaccine” against the 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 was done in 2020 deal with the pandemic and stressed that the objective for the year which began today will be “to immunize the population”.

“Happy New Year everyone,” Alberto Fernández wrote, adding: “Thanks to everyone’s commitment, we have managed to reduce the impact of the virus and the consequences that we felt this virus would cause when it all started.”

Macri said the country had suffered “from the effects of the pandemic” but ended the year “with hope”

“We did it too thanks to the excellent work and the enormous effort that the health personnel of our country did. To them, all my gratitude, ”he said.

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, ”he 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 ”.

Cristina greeted Argentines in the networks: “I love you and you very much”

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

Regarding the national vaccination campaign, Alberto Fernández declared that “thanks to the work of everyone, our country is today one of the first to have started to vaccinate its population” and underlined it as “a collective achievement “.

At the end of audiovisual message of just over six minutes, the president said, “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 focus on doing what we do best: stand up and rebuild the country. “