The journalist Horacio Verbitsky announced that he managed to get vaccinated after a personal effort with Minister Ginés González García

02/19/2021 2:56 PM

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Updated 02/19/2021 2:56 PM

The journalist Horacio Verbitsky admitted this Friday that he was vaccinated against COVID-19

after a personal management

that he did with the Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García.

In a telephone conversation with the radio station El Uncover, Verbitsky gave

details about the procedure he used to get vaccinated

, which so far applies only to health personnel and -in some provinces- to those over 80 who have taken their turn in December.

"I got to figure out where.

I called my old friend Ginés González García

, whom I have

known for

many years, who told me I had to go to the Hospital Posadas, in the district

of Morón", began his story the

government journalist

who he usually defends the positions of Kirchnerism and even influences some decisions of the government itself.

"When I was about to go I received

a message from the secretary of Ginés

, who told me that a team of vaccinators from Posadas was going to come to the Ministry, and

to go there to give me the vaccine

. Well, I went to the Ministry, the vaccination team was there "he added.

"The workers told me that they were happy because Ginés replaced everyone Macri had thrown out. And I found out there that

Clarín

number 2

, José Antonio Aranda,

was also going to be vaccinated

, who had also found out in the Ministry, but who raised that he did not want the Russian vaccine but the English one; he wants the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, so he will go on Monday. But, well, I imagined the possible meeting with José Antonio Aranda, ha ha ha ...

We did not cross paths, but we would have been funny

, "Verbitsky said.

In a brief statement,

José Antonio Aranda

, one of the Clarín Group shareholders,

denied that he had made representations to the Ministry of Health or another official

to be vaccinated against COVID by a different path from the one offered to the whole of society by the authorities.

"

I am just going to do it,

" he assured, "

when it is my turn that I will request as soon as the registration

to do so

opens in the City of Buenos Aires

," said the businessman.