A majority of Argentines expressed his rejection of the 2021 Copa América in his country, hit by a wave of covid-19 infections, according to an opinion poll published this Friday.
Consulted about the celebration of the continental tournament of national teams from June 13 to July 10, 70% responded that Argentina “should not organize it”, while only 20% were in favor and 10% did not know what to answer.
The telephone survey conducted by the Poliarquía consultant It covered 1,274 people of legal age and inhabitants of large urban centers between Thursday and Friday and contemplates a statistical margin of error of 2.8% for a confidence level of 95%.
According to the same survey, 59% of Argentines has high or medium concern about the advance of the coronavirus in the country.
COMPLY WITH PROTOCOLS
The poll is known two days after the government conditioned before Conmebol the organization of the tournament in the country to the fulfillment of strict protocols by the delegations.
“We need to know if Conmebol is capable of meeting the requirements that we are making of it,” Cabinet chief Santiago Cafiero said on Thursday.
Among those demands is the reduction of members of each delegation. While analyzing the protocols, Conmebol began to immunize different players but does so with the Chinese Sinovac vaccine that has not been approved by the Argentine authorities.
“Vaccinating 15 days before the competition is not a solution. We are concerned that it is a false sense of security because the vaccine would be one more tool but in no way replaces protocols, preventions“, the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti warned this Friday to Radio Con Vos.
Added that “The Sinovac vaccine is 50% effective in preventing infection, it does prevent serious illness and death. But in this context, what one would seek is to interrupt transmission and no vaccine prevents it in a context of concentration and competition. “
However, Vizzotti had said days ago that “strictly receiving between 1,000 and 1,200 people from different places with a strict protocol is not an epidemiologically highly relevant situation.”
Argentina that was to be co-organizer of the Copa América with Colombia, already excluded by the social outbreak with dozens of deaths, he did not rule out hosting the entire tournament yet.
RECORD OF MORE THAN 41 THOUSAND CONTAGES IN ONE DAY
Argentina, with 45 million inhabitants, suffered a record 41,080 infections on Thursday and reached 3 million 663 thousand 215 positive cases since the pandemic began, while it registered 551 deaths in 24 hours to exceed the 76 thousand deaths.
The third Latin American economy for weeks has experienced an incessant increase in cases and daily deaths Faced with which the government decreed a confinement with restriction of the population’s mobility for nine days, which ends next Sunday, two weeks after the initial whistle of the America’s Cup.
It has not yet been defined whether Argentina will be the sole organizer of the Cup or if another country will join, after the exclusion of Colombia, due to strong social protests.
In a climate of discouragement, Argentines suffer the onslaught of the economic crisis and a new brake on an incipient reactivation due to the second wave of covid, in addition to high inflation that strongly affects the purchasing power of wages.
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