Argentina’s lockdown was due to end on Sunday, but it is being extended because of a surge in cases.
The country’s economic situation, already in dire straits, has further deteriorated in recent months, and millions are finding it hard to make ends meet.
As a result, many have had to leave homes they can no longer afford and squat on land they believe is publicly owned.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation by area.
Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
During the 2020 Covid-19 epidemic, lockdown has come to mean the practice of attempting to control transmission of the virus by means of restricting people’s movement and activities on a broad scale, usually on a national or state-wide basis.