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With more than a million infections since the beginning of the pandemic and 29,301 deaths, Argentina this week began a new extension of the measures to stop the coronavirus, which transits between the new normality of Buenos Aires and the delicate situation that some of the provinces of the interior of the country.

Months ago the city of Buenos Aires and its populous Metropolitan Area (AMBA), the most populated areas and economic engine of the country, was the main source of viral transmission, with a number of infections that represented more than 90% of the total, a trend that It was reversed and the situation in provinces such as Córdoba and Santa Fe (center) is now worrying, while the curve in the capital begins to decline.

Of the 11,712 new cases reported this Monday by the Ministry of Health, 35.93% correspond to people residing in the capital or the province of Buenos Aires, while the remaining 64.07% are in the rest of the country, and it is in these places with the greatest viral transit where the main restrictions on circulation will be maintained.

The city of Buenos Aires maintains the economic reopening plan of recent months, in which the contagion curve remained stable and began to decline, and for this new stage it contemplates the return in person for the students of some courses, the authorization of university and research activities and the opening of museums.

The gastronomic venues will be able to serve customers indoors (until now only the terraces were enabled), the gyms and dance centers will be able to open with limited places and the religious activities will be able to concentrate 20 people indoors and another 20 outdoors.

Measures such as the exclusive use of public transport for workers considered essential or the need to approve hygiene and health protocols for the reopening of economic activities are maintained, while social gatherings are reserved for open spaces.

In the coming days, protocols and regulations for other activities in the city will be finalized, such as the role it will play in the return of tourism, which was announced this Saturday by the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matías Lammens, and which contemplates that they will be opened from The borders by air and by sea with neighboring countries for tourism are "imminent" ahead of the upcoming summer campaign, which begins in December.

Argentina adds more than seven months of restrictions to stop the pandemic, which at first was a strict and homogeneous quarantine for the entire country and gradually led to the current system, a time in which the number of infections was rising and that It led the country to be the sixth in the world with the most cases according to the independent study by Johns Hopkins University, in which it ranks 12th in countries with the most deaths.

To date, the health authorities of the South American country reported a total of 1,329,005 people who have suffered from coronavirus since March, of which 36,106 died.

The number of recovered amounts to 909,586 people, which represents 82.51% of the total, while 192,715 (17.48%) have the virus in an active state.

The number of tests carried out is 2,850,102 (26,448 reported today), which represents a level of 62,809 tests per million inhabitants, with a positivity close to 45 percent.