Alberto Fernández tested positive for COVID-19: the officials who were with the President during the last 48 hours

Since President Alberto Fernández confirmed that he tested positive for the coronavirus in an antigen test that was carried out this Friday night, the Government began to track all the people with whom the president was meeting in the last 48 hours, since are those that could also have been infected.

It happens that, according to the current sanitary protocol, Close contact will be considered to be an individual who has been close to a confirmed case of COVID-19 up to two previous days at the beginning of its symptoms.

Among the requirements to enter the category of suspected case, is to have remained at a distance of less than 2 meters in relation to the infected for at least 15 minutes. The most common examples are partners, visitors, and co-workers.

After the news that the President tested positive, the Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, drew up a list of those who could meet these conditions: the Chancellor Felipe Solá; the Secretary of Malvinas, Daniel Filmus; the mayor of Hurlingham, Juan Zabaleta; The secretary general, Julio Vitobello, and the presidential spokesman Juan Pablo Biondi. Meanwhile, the First Lady, Fabiola Yanez, was ruled out because it also underwent a test and was negative.

The last to visit the president was Zabaleta, who met with him this Friday, shortly before the president began to feel bad and decided to call his personal doctor to tell him that he had a headache and some fever.

On the other hand, last Wednesday Alberto Fernández received Daniel Filmus and Felipe Solá, with whom he led a meeting of the National Council on Affairs Relating to the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich and the Maritime and Insular Spaces, a few days away to fulfill a new anniversary of the landing of the Argentine troops to recover that territory.

On that occasion, the three held a videoconference with the current deputy for Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands and former governor of that province, Rosana Bertone, who was informed that the Executive Branch will send three bills to Congress to benefit the veterans of that war.

“Argentine society and the national State still have many debts to pay to those who fought and staged that conflict in defense of Argentine interests and I believe that we must move quickly in putting those heroes in their rightful place and it is not enough to call them heroes , we must make life easier for them after what they had to live and that is the obligation we have, “said Alberto Fernández during that communication.

In this sense, the president recalled that “in that feat many Argentines, 649, left their lives, and every April 2 we must honor their memory, because they fought for the sovereignty of our land” and “they were men who heroically left everything there in situations very difficult”.

“I do not want to stop rescuing each one of those who fought, remembering those who left their lives there as true heroes and also rescuing the manhood and determination of many men who returned, who always left everything in the fight that touched them. live and star, they were soldiers and they were officers, “he added.

Already in a virtual way, the head of PAMI was also communicated, Luana Volnovich; the governor of Tierra del Fuego, Gustavo Melella; the director of the Malvinas Museum, Edgardo Esteban; the members of the Council who represent the ex-combatants – such as the former chief of the Army Martin Balza-, to the main political forces and academics, as well as other authorities and legislators.