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A woman with a facial mask makes purchases in a supermarket in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 11 June 2020. Consumer prices in Argentina registered a year-on-year increase of 43.4% last May, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) reported on Thursday. According to the official statistics agency, prices registered an increase of 1.5% in May compared to April, a rise level that confirms the deceleration already registered in the fourth month of the year, when the inflation rate was also 1, 5% after 3.3% in March. EFE/Juan Ignacio Roncoroni (KEYSTONE/EFE/Juan Ignacio Roncoroni)