“The province will not make any health measures more flexible; health policies remain the same. Our desire is to take care of each other and tend to move the economy to the fullest," Perotti stressed. In the meetings he was accompanied by the Minister of Public Management, Rubén Michlig, and Production, Science and Technology, Daniel Costamagna, who joined by videoconference
"Having no contagion is a positive fact, but we still have to keep an eye on the latent risk. Really cold weather has not started yet, and those days bring respiratory diseases: colds, the flu, and pneumonia. And there is a strong potential for the development of the disease. Therefore, we have to be very cautious. We will face a stage in which we will not return to normal and this should be clarified: no one will return to trade, open the doors and continue as it was before. There will be a protocol and everyone should shop in those places with behavioral guidelines that we have not ever had before," the governor said.
"Physical distancing, keeping that distance even in queues when shopping is something that will test us. Maintaining hand hygiene and using alcohol gel are things that have come to stay. Each of the activities that is allowed to be carried out again tests the behavior, tests the behavior of the industrialist, the trader, the service provider, each of the workers, how we behave, how day after day we try not to infect the other, and at the same time we seek to take care of ourselves visiting the health centers before the smallest symptom".
"This means sustaining every policy that was arranged in terms of isolation and social distancing, the use of masks, keeping the hygienic measures, taking the temperature, and keeping the distance. We are not going to be more flexible."
In this sense, Perotti emphasized that "we have to take care of the lives of the Santafesinos in the first place, and at the same time we have to move the economy, with the least commuting of people. We have to do our best to take care of workers and avoid the crowds," he argued, and remarked that the enablement of these new economic activities will be evaluated, "we will watch out and observe" the situation of the contagion curve and "if there is a raise, we will go back," he emphasized. "This must be fundamentally clear, because how we continue depends on the evolution of health."
The governor summoned mayors, community presidents and representatives of traders, industrialists and entrepreneurs to be very careful in how they start moving without breaking health guards at all, and he added: "We need you in front of the control bodies, and go on with the responsibility that each of the quartermasters and communal presidents, associations, shopping centers, industrial, accompaniment, openings and shaping protocols have had as you have been exemplary," Perotti said.
GREATER ROSARIO AND GREATER SANTA FE
The governor recalled that the agglomerates of the Gran Rosario and Gran Santa Fe were excluded from these new exceptions and noted that the Nation was requested to analyze this situation after the numbers that have been given in Santa Fe and Rosario, in order to enable minor works, real estate and removals".
"May the numbers continue to accompany us, we will continue to insist on the proper safeguards and protocols; because the first thing we have as a priority is to protect life and ensure that the productive activity in our province decreases as little as possible."
CONTROLS
During the meeting with mayors and community presidents, the governor referred to interprovincial controls, "with Chaco and Santiago del Estero, we will continue controlling, and also reinforcing the scheme with Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA)".
"Certainly, the control instances also include tracking international trucks. We are trying to define a traceability of the incoming trucks."
