For more than 40 years, Argentina has provided peacekeeping forces to various United Nations missions, which are deployed as a component of the Argentine Joint Peace Operations Training Centre (CAECOPAZ), where more than two hundred officials have recently taken on their duties in Cyprus: The COVID-19 operation presented new challenges: the adoption of new protection measures to restrict infections , as well as new everyday jobs to protect others at home before deploying abroad.
During the pandemic, the request for food aid in Argentina went from 8 million to 11 million people. From March to July, CAECOPAZ responded by delivering food to the neighborhoods.
Approximately 80% of CAECOPAZ’s staff, 330 in total, distributed 5,000 food rations per day in the districts of buenos Aires province where COVID-19 instances were fully concentrated.
“It was a very special mission. We are very pleased to have contributed to our country,” said CAECOPAZ director Colonel Miguel Salguero. and we feel very confident to continue with empathy and perceive that the user who wants the most is the one who fears the most. We’ll have to be willing to help. “
In July, the team began preparing for deployment on peacekeeping missions. Protection measures for the deployed workers’ corps began pre-deployment education, where the entire body of workers was quarantined for five days without any contact with outsiders. Then the infantrymen were placed in teams. four to five more people for educational training, which were published online when possible, with the exception of firefighting and first aid. In-person training was basically done outdoors with social distances and masks.
“When I arrived at the centre, I had to adapt to all the biosecurity measures, protocols and fitness criteria used through this center for the prevention and spread of the virus,” said Gonzalo Kloster, a marine corps corporal, one of the peace forces deployed in Cyprus.
Inside the base, the barrels created an edge separating the body of workers in and out of the base of the apprentice cover bubble.
Another checkpoint was installed outside the dining room, where staff were checked to make sure they had no fever but had no sense of smell, tables inviting team dining were reserved for individual use. A special biosecurity patrol supervised compliance.
At night, no more than 4 more people slept in a room with beds arranged in such a way that they created a greater social distance.
Upon arrival in Cyprus, the workers’ bodies were quarantined for 14 days before joining their contingent in the UN service.
For a larger workers’ body base shield, infants adapted measures used under chemical warfare conditions such as the construction of a decontamination tunnel using quaternary ammonium, a hard antibacterial disinfectant, to disinfect the body of workers passing through it. These measures are credited to keeping the COVID-19 base free of charge.
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