Deserted Streets, Digital Dancing as Argentina Goes Into Full Lockdown

Deserted Streets, Digital Dancing as Argentina Goes Into Full Lockdown
A worker unloads toilet paper packages outside a store after Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez announced a mandatory quarantine as a measure to curb the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 20, 2020. Reuters/Matias Baglietto
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Argentina went into full lockdown mode on Friday, with streets in Buenos Aires largely deserted, while workers and school kids in the capital logged on remotely to offices, classrooms and even digital dancing lessons, after a mandatory quarantine was imposed.

On Thursday President Alberto Fernandez announced the isolation measure to keep all but essential workers in their homes until the end of March in what he called “a fight against an invisible enemy to save lives.”