Mónica García: “Foreigners with symptoms will be evacuated to their countries”
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, assured this Friday that “foreigners with symptoms will be evacuated to their countries”, if they do not need urgent medical attention and “regardless of whether they have any symptoms”, she stated. He said this in an interview on Spanish National Radio in which he stressed that it is not the time “to introduce uncertainties, fears or a sterile political debate”, in response to the criticism of the Popular Party for the management of the hantavirus outbreak.
García has also referred to the quarantines of the 14 Spaniards, about which there are still doubts about whether they will be mandatory: “We are going to appeal to responsibility, common sense, informed consent,” he explained, to “ensure their health and that of the population in general.” “They are the first interested parties,” he stated.
“Of course, we are going to give all the explanations, we are giving them, for all the decisions,” García responded regarding the request for an urgent and extraordinary appearance of the PP in Congress. The leader of the popular party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, criticized on Thursday, at an Andalusian campaign event, that this crisis “catches the Minister of Health discussing who is running for her party’s primaries.”
The person responsible for health matters also wanted to send a couple of messages to the public about the hantavirus outbreak. Firstly, he has asked the population to inform themselves “through official channels” against the proliferation of hoaxes and conspiracy theories. And secondly, he assured that “we are a safe country” and added that “the WHO trusts us” to deploy the device that will receive the cruise ship on Sunday in Tenerife. MV Hondius.
