02/19/2021 18:10
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/19/2021 18:10
In the midst of the controversy after learning that government officials and leaders close to President Alberto Fernández received the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, Deputy Eduardo Valdés acknowledged this Friday that he asked the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, to apply it a dose before participating in an official trip to Mexico and that the holder of the sanitary portfolio managed it.
After several attempts to justify that they have vaccinated him, he defended González García and said he would regret being "responsible" for his instability in office.
His statements were prior to the President's request to resign Ginés, amid the
VIP vaccination scandal.
"I asked the Minister of Health if one who is about to travel to Mexico can be vaccinated and he told me that he is going to see. And they send me first to the Posadas (hospital) and then to the Ministry of Health, but I never thought I was doing something illegal, I thought I should take care of myself and those who traveled with me, "said Valdés.
The deputy, a friend of the President of the Nation, will be part of the delegation that will travel to Mexico on Sunday as part of an official visit.
Jorge Taiana will also go, who is another of the officials who was at the center of the controversy after receiving the vaccine.
In an interview with
Radio con Vos
, Valdés tried to justify with different arguments why he had been vaccinated.
First, he pointed out that he did so "according to a protocol" and at the invitation of the president to travel to Mexico, and then that he felt that he should be vaccinated to travel to a city like Mexico City due to the large number of infections that exist.
"I do not feel that I have done something ideal. I felt that I had to be vaccinated and with the updated PCR (tests). They give me the vaccine because I am going to Mexico City. The other option was not to travel," he insisted.
And he added: "I wanted to comply with the trip, which is work, and not infect anyone or get infected. I never wanted to get the vaccine from anyone."
Asked if his vaccination, that of Taiana and that of the journalist Horacio Verbitsky puts the continuity of González García in health in check, Valdés replied: "I am sorry if I am responsible for the stability of a man like Ginés González García."
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