Argentina is braced for the first case of coronavirus to be confirmed among the thousands of port workers and grains handlers involved in the country's key agricultural export sector, local industry officials said.
BUENOS AIRES - Argentina is braced for the first case of coronavirus to be confirmed among the thousands of port workers and grains handlers involved in the country’s key agricultural export sector, local industry officials said.
The country has had 2,277 confirmed cases of the virus so far, 101 of which have been fatal, according to official data. “The export chain is prepared,” said Luis Zubizarreta, head of Argentina’s CPPC private ports chamber. Stevedores and white collar port workers are required to stay 1.5 meters away from each other at all times and medical teams have been posted at all grains transfer points.
“Truck transportation is very atomized. I can’t imagine it coming to a halt. The really worry is the port facilities,” said Alvaro Tomas, who grows soy and corn in the Pampas farm town of Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires province.
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