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Coronavirus in Argentina | Drastic drop in the use of public transport in the AMBA due to strict quarantine


The Ministry of Transportation of the Nation reported that the number of people on public transport in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) down 27% in the first part of the “strict quarantine”.

Based on the SUBE card data, Between Wednesday, July 1 and Friday, July 3, 735,367 trips were made while in the previous week more than a million had been registered.

The area in charge of Mario Meoni highlighted that the number of passengers in the first days of July it was the lowest since the mark obtained in the first fortnight of April when there were 704,727 transfers.

The Government ordered the “Reserve your Train” system for “essential workers” in the Sarmiento line as in the Tigre del Miter branch from 6 to 10 in the morning towards the City of Buenos Aires.

The Ministry of Transport shared its daily statistics to show that despite the more than one hundred days of social isolation, the inhabitants of the AMBA agreed to return to the “strict quarantine”.

The most restrictive phase of “social, preventive and compulsory isolation” will end in principle on July 17 in Greater Buenos Aires, but the Government analyzes health data to decide how to proceed.



Written by Argentina News

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