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Buenos Aires is consulting with the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, due to the accelerated increase in coronavirus cases in the Argentine capital and its metropolitan area, while President Alberto Fernández will seek to know first-hand in a conversation with Pedro Sánchez what steps were taken to allow the return of professional football.

"Yesterday (Friday) I spoke at length with the mayor of Madrid," revealed the head of government of the city of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. In his conversation with José Luis Martínez Almeida he sought to obtain information about how the Spanish capital dealt in the weeks of the peak of the crisis, which seems to be the scenario towards which Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area are heading.

Rodríguez Larreta appeared on Saturday night at a press conference with the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, and the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, to explain the reasons for the extension of the mandatory quarantine that governs the country since March 20.

80% in the metropolitan area

"The quarantine is going to last as long as it takes for the Argentines to be healthy and for the Argentines not to die," said Fernández crudely. The Argentine president distinguished between the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, which concentrates about 80% of cases, and the rest of the country, where almost half of the provinces have not registered cases for a week. Argentina added 704 new cases today, with 11,353 in total and 445 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

The different Argentine political leaders closely observe the experience of Spain, and Fernández cited another aspect: he will call Pedro Sánchez to understand how soccer was brought back in Spain. Fernández and Sánchez maintain a good political harmony.

"Today I listened to Pedro Sánchez, I was going to call him to ask him what he was like, because it is a citizen demand, which is reopening the Spanish soccer league. But it is not reopening soccer, but activity, which is something that we too we analyze. "

The Argentine president, who highlighted that the cases have increased fivefold in the last two weeks, was upset at times with questions from the press, which had an impact on the profound blow that the economy is suffering in the face of quarantine. Industrial activity fell 11.5% in March.

"Let the anxious, or those with other interests, not win over us," he warned before speaking directly to journalists: "What I would like is for you, when you speak, to tell the citizens that what we are doing is taking care "

The Argentine head of state does not like to be talked about the anguish that many citizens feel before the mandatory quarantine.

"The anguish of quarantine ... Is it anguish to save yourself? The anguish is getting sick, not preserving health. Let the State abandon you and tell you to cope as you can. We all have the possibility of going out to air ourselves when we need it, but stop sowing anguish. Serious things are happening here and that's why we act as we act. "

"We are going to increase the number of tests to know exactly where the virus is. The cases are going to rise because now we have detected where the virus is, but we do not know how many it has infected. This was going to happen. And it is happening. And what we don't have to do is lose our cool. "

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