(10 Oct 2020) At one of Argentina's favourite holiday beach resorts, Mar del Plata, 504 small national flags were planted in honour of local people who have died of COVID-19 as the pandemic continues to spread from the country's capital to the interior provinces.
A group of anonymous neighbours planted the flags on Bristol beach, one of the city's central and best-known beaches, to draw attention to the rising numbers of COVID-19 victims.
While the number of infections and deaths begin to go down in the city of Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area, the pandemic is spreading to the interior just two months from the start of the summer season, when hundreds of thousands of tourists normally flock to the beaches.
Authorities haven't clarified yet what measures will be taken during the holiday season.
Argentina has reported more than 840,000 cases of the new coronavirus and 22,226 deaths.

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