“house-to-house” insulation control and time slots

On alert, to stop the second wave of coronavirus, the government seeks to “co-participate” with the provinces in measures to lower the contagion curve, on the rise in recent weeks. Beyond the measures announced on Sunday, with a focus on teleworking for public employment, and those that it will eventually adopt in the coming hours after the meeting with the board of health experts, Casa Rosada wants governors to show more initiative, strengthen controls and take charge of any time restrictions.

In recent days, the Government has held a series of meetings that have revealed growing concern about the number of infections and, above all, the risk associated with the arrival of new strains that control the region. More than concrete measures, these meetings aimed to lower a warning message and raise awareness about the seriousness of the health situation, but this weekend, the administration Alberto Fernández surprised by making announcements that were not planned before Friday.

However, between social wear and tear left by an extremely extended quarantine in 2020, the slow progress of the vaccination plan and the limited margin given by the economy to take macroeconomic measures that limit activities, the government calls for strengthening the message of individual responsibility and that it is the governors who finally, after having analyzed the health care system of their provinces, adopt restrictive measures. Something similar to what happened in January, when after the holidays the contagion curve soared and limited overnight.

“For the measures to be fulfilled, there needs to be a political consensus and no one can be distracted by the fact that the situation is worrying,” they tell Casa Rosada.

The message by elevation involves not only opponents, like the head of government of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who this afternoon gave a press conference and denied that the restrictions are being assessed, even the governors pro-government officials who avoid unpleasant decisions to avoid presuming costs. “It’s not just the City, where the nightlife is overwhelmed: it’s happening everywhere and everyone must take charge,” they insist.

In this sense, in addition to the recommendation to all to imitate the decision to release state agents from face to face labor, in Balcarce 50 they weigh the leaders who have come forward and in an election year “they do not not speculate “. There are two, like Jorge Capitanich from Chaco and Ricardo Quintela from La Rioja, who made announcements this weekend that went beyond what had been established by the Nation.

In the case of Capitanich, he established “partial restrictions by locality, grouped together cases, schedules and high impact activities, “as Quintela has been harder and has taken a step similar to that taken by the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, last week: he ordered the ‘ban on traffic on public roads between 1 and 6 and social gatherings limited to 15 people.

In this line, In government, the rigid position of the governor of Buenos Aires Axel Kicillof stands out, which in the next few hours could advance restrictions for recreational activities in closed spaces, as admitted by the chief of staff of the Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires, Enio García.

With the approach of Easter, according to the confidence of the governor, Kicillof analyzes with the mayors the possibility of setting deadlines and restrictions. This Tuesday there will be a key summit in this regard, but the president and his chief of staff, Carlos Bianco, are exchanging messages and calls with mayors to agree on measures.

For now, the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, prepares a report to give to the President with the details of all the Argentines who returned to the country in the last hours. It will be a “map” in which each governor will have to do his part: the idea is that the local security forces control the accomplishment of compulsory isolation “house by house” and, at the same time, ensure that for to be discharged the PCR test established by the national government is carried out.

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