Starting this Thursday, April 7, the use of face masks in the Buenos Aires province it will be optional for some open and closed spaces in the region. This was announced today by the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, in a Twitter message strip.
“With ten consecutive weeks of decreases in the rate of daily infections, the outbreak of influenza controlled, the flu immunization campaign started and more than 95% of the population of Buenos Aires vaccinated against COVID 19, we have decided to make the use of chinstraps more flexible in the Buenos Aires territory”, wrote the head of the Health of the Buenos Aires province.
The flexibility measure, as clarified by the health doctor, will begin to govern, from today, in work, recreational and educational spaces of the Buenos Aires provincebut The mandatory chinstrap will be maintained to access public transport, such as train and bus services.
“We are in a good epidemiological situationsince with the arrival of the first cold weather and the imminent change of season, the latent presence of new variants and face-to-face classes without capacity or restrictions, the daily infections in the territory are stable already down”, he celebrated.
However, although the use of face masks is made more flexible, Kreplak pointed out that the health authorities will continue to “monitor the epidemiological situation” in the province and recommend the use of face masks to avoid contagion.
“We will deliver face masks in schools, we will reinforce the flu and coronavirus vaccination campaign; We will monitor compliance with the measures in force so that we get much closer to full normality, ”he reiterated on Twitter.
Reinforcement of health care in Buenos Aires schools
As part of the monitoring and surveillance plan in Buenos Aires schools, the Provincial Health Minister reported that “33,000 carbon dioxide meters” have been distributed in the educational centers of the territory to “guarantee that the ventilation inside the classrooms is adequate”.
In addition, he confirmed that more than 295,000 coronavirus vaccines have already been applied in some 3,000 schools in the Province of Buenos Aires, which increases the pediatric immunization rate to 67% with the first dose and 60% with the complete schedule. according to data from the Public Vaccination Monitor.
