Ignacio Miri
02/19/2021 18:49
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/19/2021 19:02
Thursday the 18th in the afternoon.
Two
Clarín
journalists
,
Ignacio Ortelli
and
Federico Mayol
, begin to
follow a piece of information
that indicated that the Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García, had
mounted a secret operation
that same day in the offices of the building that presides over 9 avenue of July to
apply the
Sputnik V
vaccine
to a group of government officials and friends.
Late at night, they begin to collect
names of people included in that
reserved
list
and call various government officials to
try to corroborate this information
.
This Friday, journalists continue to add names and begin to call some of them to confirm from their own mouth whether they had been vaccinated.
In parallel, perhaps alerted by someone about those questions that
Clarín
was asking
, the journalist Horacio Verbitsky communicates with the El Uncover radio and, surprisingly,
informs the drivers that on Thursday he had been vaccinated
despite the fact that at the time he had announced that he was determined to "wait" to consider the possible side effects of the vaccine.
The show's hosts applaud the fanfare between laughter
.
Perhaps wrapped up in
that fervor
, Verbitsky gave very precise details about the minister's participation in the application of his vaccine, despite the fact that it was not entered in any registry to gain access to Sputnik V.
Verbitsky's confession began to circulate rapidly on social networks, and after noon
Clarín
published the note on which he had been working since Thursday, which included the names of Verbitsky but also of the deputy
Eduardo Valdés
and Senator
Jorge Taiana
, who they were going to be part of the delegation that will accompany the president to Mexico this weekend.
It must be clarified that that country
does not ask for a vaccination certificate to enter
.
With the scandal unleashed, the Government asked Salud for the names of those who received this VIP vaccination card.
In that list
appear names of businessmen friends of the minister
.
That data did not come alone: it was stuck on top of the pile of a series of invoices that were already being passed on to the minister within the Government, among them several unfortunate statements, unfulfilled promises and errors and delays in the purchase of supplies throughout the pandemic.
Some of these errors cannot be attributed only to González García, but in politics the bills are almost always paid in the same way.
The next step was sung: the departure of the Cabinet minister.
