Argentina: Long queues of pensioners in front of banks despite COVID-19 lockdown

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SOT, Farina Rodriguez, Resident (Spanish): "They are going to be old [like me some day], and for me, it is a lack of respect, I have to come like this, without a leg, it is not the way [to do this]."
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SOT, Farina Rodriguez, Resident (Spanish): "I can't wait, I want to get paid because I have to feed my children, I come here because I don't have anything else, the only thing I have is the pension."
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C/U Alberto Gauna outside bank
SOT, Alberto Gauna, Resident (Spanish): "I spent the whole night here because I need it. I have suffered two brain injuries and I need the money not to eat, because I do not care about eating, because I survive on tea and bread. What I cannot survive without is the lack of medicines ."
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SOT, Ana Clara Ibarrola, Resident (Spanish): "People are lying on the floor, which is where the virus lives the most, you can not take distance because there are many people there and the people have too many needs."
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SOT, Ana Clara Ibarrola, Resident (Spanish): "We have no oil, we have no sugar, we have no flour. It is difficult to get any products, nevermind meat. We haven't eaten meat for a while. We have resourced to fried cake and homemade things that we did not consume before."
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Pensioners queued outside banks in Buenos Aires on Saturday to withdraw their monthly allowance despite the lockdown enforced to tackle the spread of coronavirus.
Footage filmed in the early hours of Saturday in Merlo, and later on in Moreno, shows massive lines of elderly people, some of them wearing face masks and others sitting in chairs, while they waited outside banks before opening hours to be able to withdraw money.
"I spent the whole night here because I need it. I have suffered from two brain injuries and I need the money not to eat, because I do not care about eating, because I survive on tea and bread. What I cannot survive without is the lack of medicines, " said a local Alberto Gauna.
"People are lying on the floor, which is where the virus lives the most, you can not take distance because there are many people there and the people have too many needs," added Ana Clara Ibarrola.
Last Friday Banks opened in Argentina for the first time since the lockdown was implemented, causing thousands of pensioners and people receiving state aid money to flock in thousands exceeding banks capacities. Since Saturday, banks have agreed to work on the weekend and until the start of Easter, only dealing with the elderly that have specific dates assigned to them depending on the final numbers of their IDs number.
Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez issued a decree prohibiting citizens from leaving their homes, except to go out and buy food or medicine on March 20, which was later extended until April 12.