Argentina extends quarantine to 28 June in metropolitan Buenos Aires

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Argentina decided to prolong the quarantine linked to the COVID-19 pandemic until 28 June in the areas most affected by the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday. The president made the announcement next to Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires province, which concentrates 40% of the country's population, and most virus cases. Read full article

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Enrique Massot
Until the day a vaccine becomes available to all, the coronavirus will stay with us and we will need to learn to live differently. Masques, social distancing, disinfection and other precaution measures will need to continue long after quarantines are lifted.

President Alberto Fernandez, who early on decided on strong measures that have kept the contagion numbers low, understands this.

“...we must understand that we have not overcome the problem, even when in some places there are no more contagion cases,” he said.

Fernandez has shown leadership by staying the course against pressure from political adversaries who are trying to fuel the flames of logical discontent caused by isolation. measures.

For those who would be in doubt, however, they need to look no further than neighbour Brazil, where a president with no compass has led the country down a path of sickness and death.

And then, the
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Chicureo
Yes Enrique, trash the freely elected president of Brazil but fail to ever mention one comment about his buddies in Venezuela...
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