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As I mentioned in the summary at the top, Argentina has announced a nationwide lockdown until the end of the month. The country has so far recorded 128 cases including three deaths.
Argentina is going into an obligatory nationwide quarantine until atleast March 31, President Alberto Fernández announced Thursday night, just two and half hours before the measure goes into effect at the stroke of midnight.
“This means nobody can move from their place of residence, everybody has to stay home,” the president said in a televised address.
Figures released in China on Friday morning say that the country has gone a second successive day without recording any new locally transmitted cases.
However, China had 39 new confirmed cases on Thursday, the country’s health commission said, all of which were imported, Reuters reports.
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