which are the towns where infections have increased the most

Figures from the 26 municipalities of Greater Buenos Aires confirm that the second hello coronavirus infections have already happened. And with force. During the last week of March, the rate of people infected per day in the suburbs increased by nearly a 60% compared to the last week of February.

Both in the communes of the southern zone and in the north and west of the GBA, there were a total of 2,514 new neighbors infected every 24 hours from Monday 22 to Sunday 28 March. Between the same dates but the previous month, this figure was 1,580.

These percentages they were scared to provincial authorities and were the trigger for the governor Axel Kicillof decided to adjust the tourniquet restrictions In a first batch, it includes stores with new limits on nighttime hours and limits on the number of people who can participate in social gatherings.

the North del Conurbano is the most complicated. Between PIlar, San Fernando, Vicente López, Tigre, Escobar, San Isidro, San Martín and Malvinas Argentinas, they added 630 cases per day during this week of March compared to 382 during the same period last month. In other words, a rise in 68%.

It is followed by the region of Sure, more populated because there are nine municipalities that group together Avellaneda, Lanús and Lomas de Zamora and up to Florencio Varela, Berazategui and Ezeiza. Also in the same weeks, on average 1023 daily infections were recorded against 620 a month ago: the 65% more.

the Where is It has also experienced a significant increase but it appears later: 852 daily cases against 578 in February, a slightly lower growth than the rest of the GBA but equally disturbing: almost 50% more.

There is a lot of disparity between municipalities. There were three communes in which the daily case rate they doubled: San Fernando (129% more), Berazategui (106%) and José C. Paz (101%). Then, almost doubling the infections, Esteban Echeverría, Avellaneda and Escobar appear with an increase of 90% and a little less Malvinas Argentinas and San Miguel.

Rare this numbers, but Ituzaingó recorded only a 22% increase, followed by Hurlingham and Merlo who did not reach 30%. There is a key piece of information to correctly weight all these calculations: the number of tests and positivity this gives each district the ability to compare them.

What seems a priori demonstrated is that no there is necessarily a relationship between the growth of cases and the municipalities that more notes granted. Two examples are San Isidro and Vicente López: These are the first municipalities that allowed runners, party rooms, tennis and bars, for example, and they are not among the most complicated.

What did they say in the municipalities? At the same time, all the mayors indicate that they will align themselves with the new measures taken by the Province. “We are going to increase controls to ensure compliance with the health protocols stipulated by the Province”, they repeat in the municipalities before consulting the media. Although they warn that there will be resistance among the people and, above all, among the merchants.

The communal chiefs admit in a low voice: “Nor we can be provincial commissioners and going out en masse to close the bars which, under the new arrangement, are allowed to operate until 2 a.m. Its owners are hoping for this long weekend to harvest some more amid so much malaria. We also cannot go to the family houses to see if there are more than 10 people in the social gatherings ”.

Thus, in the Conurbano, the municipal authorities ensure on the one hand that they will come out to check at Easter that the new suspensions are met and comply with the measures announced by Governor Axel Kicillof, but they also mark limits. But they also warn that hardly anyone is willing to mass shutdowns.

“We will base ourselves, as we have done throughout the pandemic period, on what the provincial government dictates. AMBA is not divided by a street or avenue, so we will not take isolated actions and act according to the protocols or decisions of the province. If we reinforce the communication campaign to intensify the preventive measures towards the neighbors ”, they specify in one of the official communes attached to the river.

On Tuesday, after the announcement of the return to the commercial “curfew”, there was a coincidence on the part of the municipalities in supporting the provincial provisions that everyone considered reasonable and in monitoring compliance with the new suspensions. “We will strengthen the controls to apply the measures that the province has implemented,” they expressed, for example, in Esteban Echeverría, and in other municipalities, the situation was similar.

At the Lanús Emergency Committee meeting, Gustavo Sieli, local health secretary, conducted a detailed analysis of the increase in positive cases of Covid-19, which rose from 60 daily cases taking an average of 7 days to 99 average daily cases. towards the end of March. Exactly 65% ​​more, which puts Lanús in the middle of the regional average.

In Las Lomitas and Lanusita, the two gastronomic poles of the region where the time change is most noticeable (they closed at 5 a.m. and 4 a.m. respectively), the cut-off at 2 a.m. is not considered something serious. , as long as it is not yet cut in addition. Even so, in bars, they admit that the children will continue on the streets and that the time limit means that underground parties are on the increase.

In Lanús – the only district in the South of a political nature opposed to that of Axel Kicillof’s government – they considered the measure “logical”. And they believed that the proposed schedule “will not affect business billing, since the strong schedule is 20 to 1.” But they stressed that the situation could be more complex if the ban was extended: “If it affected rush hours, what we see is that there would be great resistance from traders.” In Lomas, meanwhile, they have indicated that they will maintain the current checks “adapted to the new schedule”, that is to say with the limit which had been extended to 5, again to 2.

“For the moment, we have not been warned, but it will happen,” speculated Tuesday afternoon the owner of a bar in Santa Rosa, on the border of Morón and Ituzaingó. “Basically, the business already has to do magic to survive because all the changes have had a big impact. Moreover, such confusion is generated that people stop participating again.”

“They are going to lose more manpower and once again we do not know if we are going to be able to maintain the structure and the chain of payments”, they synthesized pessimistically elsewhere.

Some, on the other hand, have moderate their forecasts. “They complicate us in that we have people at the table until 3:30 or 4 in the morning, so that reduces our billing. On the other hand, it allows us to continue working and it will surely reduce the night and , hopefully, the illegals., which we think is the main source of contagion, ”they said in a pub.

In Merlo, they assured that the province is now sending vaccines due to the amount of population and that in this way they hope to grow. As of Monday, it had 29,164 cases, including 22,960 healed and 960 deaths. And they vaccinated 25,205 neighbors.

Tres de Febrero adds 23,497 infected, 18,093 cured and 778 deaths, including 25,947 vaccinated. Moreno has had 29,475 patients since the start of the pandemic, with 22,679 cured and 755 deaths. They applied doses to 34,030 people. Ituzaingó, another on the podium of the most vaccinated, has 11,299 cumulative cases and 8,498 recovered, with 420 dead. And 19,450 vaccinated. Hurlingham, with characteristics similar to Ituzaingó, has 10,912 confirmed, 8,520 recovered and 382 dead. And among those vaccinated, it stands at 21,560.

San Miguel has 20,563 cases, including 16,922 cured and 511 deaths. In addition, 15,821 residents were vaccinated. José C Paz has 16,184 cases including 10,399 cured and 486 deaths. Vaccinated in total 18,805.

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