In an act in Morón, the president Alberto Fernandez today presented the national vaccination campaign once morest Covid-19 aimed at the educational community, which seeks “make the school a safe place and guarantee attendance at the beginning of the school year”, according to what was officially reported. Sitting next to him was the Chief of Staff, John Manzur, amid rumors that he might leave the leadership of the ministers before the end of the summer.
There, the president spoke regarding the negotiation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the external debt, still not resolved. Considering that they cannot be “repeat stories in economic matters”, justified the lack of agreement: “That’s why our fight, no matter how upset some are, with the IMF. where we say that we have to have the right to grow, according to how we believe we should grow. To have memory, simply to have memory. And remember, in that case, that when the adjustments arrived, our town suffered”.
While definitions of the main economic problem facing his administration are delayed, Fernández insisted: “Just remember 2001, what it meant for Argentina. Remember that the closest adjustment that the Fund requested from Argentina it made the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Science and Technology disappear. It caused the loss of three central bastions for the development of a State and a society”.
During his speech from the “Diego Armando Maradona” Municipal Micro-stadium, Fernández also took the opportunity to launch a dart once morest the Buenos Aires Minister of Education, Soledad Acunawithout naming her. “We do not believe that in the pandemic the boys who dropped out of school are wandering the streets of a popular neighborhood or were recruited as soldiers for drug trafficking.. We don’t believe that. We believe that they are children who are waiting for a hand to help them and get them back on the path of education,” said Fernández, who highlighted the extension of the Progresar plan as an instrument to recover students in the classroom.
The President’s phrase came following the official who answers to the City’s head of government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, was left in the eye of the storm. Acuña assured last week that “it is too late” to “go out and look for” some young people who stopped going to school during the pandemic, because “Surely they are already lost in the corridor of a villa or fell into drug trafficking activities.”
After the criticism that his management received for betting on virtual schooling to contain the advance of the virus, Fernández promised today that The “priority” of this school year will be “that there is schooling and attendance for all young Argentines.” Then he stated: “We have to give teachers safe scenarios to go back to work and that is given by vaccination.”
In this sense, he explained that regarding 80% of those hospitalized with coronavirus do not have the inoculation scheme started or complete. “So that we can all return to full presence, we all need to be vaccinated,” said Fernández, who stressed that applying the doses is an “act of individual responsibility”, but also “an act of solidarity to care for the other”.
“That is why now, when the vaccination calendar begins in Argentina, we are starting this vaccination plan,” said the President to announce the launch of the campaign once morest Covid-19 in schools, which aims to collaborate with the objective of achieve 190 days of classes in the classrooms. “I want those 190 days of classes to think regarding studying, teaching and learning; and not at the risk of infecting us. We are taking an important step, this is the beginning,” he said.
And despite the fact that the President stressed that Argentina has vaccination “very deeply rooted in its culture”, he warned: “There are pockets of society without vaccinating and we have to go and convince them of the need to be vaccinated.”
In a review of what happened during the health crisis, he spoke of “118,000 people” dead with Covid-19 as a “chilling figure” and limited: “We are a generation of pandemic survivors, and as such we have higher moral imperatives. We have been lucky to survive such a misfortune. Those imperatives force us to be a more just and equitable society.”
The event began at noon and was attended by the Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk; the Secretary of Access to Health, Sandra Tirado; and the local mayor, Lucas Ghi.
This campaign is intended for primary and secondary school students; to their families: and to teachers and non-teachers at all levels. At the moment, 77.4% of children and adolescents already have at least one dose and 56.6% have completed their vaccination schedule, as officially reported.
During his visit to Morón, Fernández will also visit a Progresar point.
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