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Buenos Aires Times | Crisis grips Argentina s government, exposing split in ruling coalition
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Buenos Aires Times | Beef exports: Government, meatpackers close in on agreement to lift ban
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“All of the oxygen that is produced today in Argentina has as an absolute priority to supply hospitals,” said Kulfas.
Argentina is cancelling all exports of oxygen to cope with growing domestic demand, Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas announced Tuesday.
The demand for oxygen for medical use grew between 300 and 330 per cent in recent days, which triggered the alarms in the national government.
Kalfas held a meeting at Casa Rosada with Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero and Health Minister Carla Vizzotti, after which it was decided that the supply of oxygen to hospitals during the second wave of coronavirus should be prioritized over other uses, so “all the supply that was intended to supply the industrial sector” must now “supply the health sector, explained the minister.
Photos representing sectors of Argentina s economy. | NA
One year on from Argentina’s strict Covid-19 lockdown, a second wave of infections looms on the horizon, this time accompanied by the circulation of new, more contagious strains of the virus and a slow vaccination rate.
The cocktail threatens to impact on the economic recovery, yet Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas has declared that “it will not be necessary to resort to closures like last year. He says industry has learned to produce while complying with health protocols. Experts, for now, tend to agree. Those consulted by
Perfil believe that a strict quarantine, as witnessed in 2020, is unlikely due to Argentina’s fierce socioeconomic deterioration: last year ended with a poverty rate of 42 percent, with unemployment at 11 percent, and an economic contraction of 9.9 percent of gross domestic product.