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In Argentina, new regulations for people with disabilities going out during quarantine.

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The Government determined that days will be assigned according to the completion of the national identification number. They should not have symptoms compatible with Covid-19.

The national government regulated the exception of compliance with the mandatory quarantine for coronavirus to people with disabilities and those who care for them through resolution 77/2020 published today in the Official Gazette, which allows “brief walks” for “no more than 500 meters”, and assign days according to the last digit of the national identification number.

Article 2 of the rule explains that people with disabilities can only make short trips “when they do not have symptoms compatible with Covid-19 (fever, sore throat, cough and / or respiratory distress)”.

It is also established, in article 3, that they may go out onto the public highway “with a single companion, family member or cohabitant, if they need it, for short walks, not more than 500 meters from their residence”.

The regulations clarify that those who are over 60 years of age, have chronic respiratory diseases, obstructive pulmonary disease, congenital emphysema, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, and moderate or severe asthma; have heart disease, heart failure, coronary heart disease, heart valve disease, and congenital heart disease; or immunodeficiencies, may not use this exception

Neither those with diabetes, chronic kidney failure on dialysis or with expectations of entering dialysis in the following six months; pregnant; and “any other circumstance that the health authority defines in the future.”

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