The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicholas KreplakHe said this Sunday that the pandemic “is going down” and that a protocol is being worked on to have “absolute attendance” at the start of classes, which includes vaccinating children and providing them with masks in schools.
“The pandemic is going down. We have to see how things evolve with 5 million people moving with the start of classes,” the Buenos Aires official told Radio 10.
“We are already working on the beginning of classes so that there are no new infections due to the massive circulation of people“, he specified.
“Testing was changed throughout the country. You are seeing a drop, it has to do with the fact that Omicron has a lower incubation, especially in vaccinated people,” he added. “There is a rapid drop in cases, as we have seen in the world with the Omicron variant. Hospitalizations are also being reduced throughout the country. People are also calling less, we take that as a symptomatic factor,” added the Buenos Aires official.
Regarding the start of classes, Kreplak maintained that “we are working to be able to have absolute attendance. Now with the vaccine it is not essential that we guarantee the distance. We have to guarantee the use of a quality mask, from first grade with a mask.”
“We have to try to change the cloth mask for a quality one. The objective is to provide the chinstrap to the boys so that they can use quality,” he anticipated.
“The education workers have the three free doses and we are going to vaccinate the children in the schools. We are going to make a very big effort starting in March. We are working on a protocol to have absolute presence.”
“What happens is that testing is a way of making a diagnosis. With Covid, it happens that when you have many circulating respiratory diseases, you need to do a test. There comes a time when there is so much circulation that you no longer necessarily need a complementary study. to detect the virus,” he said.
“There are fewer infections, in the province there are 33 percent less than the previous week. The pandemic is coming down. Let’s hope it doesn’t have a rise again and that a continued descent begins“, he concluded.
