Ginés González García was surprised in a bar in Madrid and the video went viral

06/19/2021 1:58 AM

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Updated 06/19/2021 1:58 AM

The former Minister of Health Ginés González García was once again at the center of the controversy when he was surprised while having a glass of wine in a bar in Madrid and the video

went viral on social networks

, with strong repudiation from the users.

In the images, which last less than 20 seconds, González García can be seen dressed in a T-shirt and shorts with his partner, sitting outside a bar on a couple of stools,

with a single glass of red wine

.

The now former official left office in February this year when the VIP vaccination scandal broke out, which included friends of power, including journalists, businessmen and activists who received the coronavirus vaccine despite not being within the groups. that had to be inoculated.

The anger of the users in the networks against the former Minister of Health grew due to the serious situation that Argentina is going through, which is about to reach 90 thousand deaths with

only 8% of the population immunized

with two doses of the vaccine against COVID.

Any similarity with Ginés González García is a mere coincidence pic.twitter.com/yw0wuFmkYL

- Ariel Squeff (@ ArielSqueff1977) June 18, 2021

As reported, González García traveled to Spain last Sunday on an

academic visit

to which he was invited by the Spanish National School of Health, where he participates in a series of work sessions on the project "Health systems in Latin America after the pandemic ".

However, the academic trip was immediately mixed with the political, since in one of his first appointments he met Hugo Sigman, who temporarily resides in Madrid.

The image of the former minister with Sigman, head of Insud;

The pharmaceutical company that produces part of the vaccine from the AstraZeneca laboratory, also generated discomfort in public opinion, given that the firm has the

largest contract

to vaccinate in Argentina and so far the number of doses that arrived in the country was low.

In principle, the purchase of more than 22 million doses of vaccines was agreed.

When the controversies began over the delay in deliveries, Sigman was the target of questioning for his links with the ruling party.

In addition, the Government paid almost 100 million dollars in advance to have the vaccines.

The photo of Ginés González García and the businessman Hugo Sigman that generated noise in networks.

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Sigman assured that Insud was not in charge of the commercialization.

"" MAbxience is not the owner of the vaccine, nor is it responsible for selling it, collecting it, or signing contracts with governments or establishing delivery dates, "he declared.

The businessman specified that the firm partnered with the Slim group to produce in Argentina and Mexico the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and the Anglo-Swedish laboratory AstraZeneca and that the Argentine State privileged for its purchase.

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