Director of Public Health of Castilla y León resigns after stating that “the pandemic was not of great gravity”

“People are going to stir on the couch when they hear it,” said on Wednesday in a program of Castilla y León Televisión the high health office of a community in which more than 20,000 people died

The Director of Public Health of Castilla y León, Sonia Tamames, has presented her resignation to the Health Councillor after statements in which she pointed out that the pandemic of the covid-19 "was not of great gravity." It has been the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who has announced this resignation at the same time that he has apologized for these statements. "I believe that his statements have been a serious mistake. A…

"The covid affected the young population at a very early stage, but quickly evolved to become serious only at the extremes of life."

In Castile and León, 2,343 elderly residents died between March 14 and April 30, 2020

Sonia Tamames said on the television program Question of priorities that “The Covid-19 pandemic was not of great gravity”

The health director of Castilla y León said this Thursday in an interview that the covid-19 pandemic that hit the whole world in 2020 "was not so serious." Statements that ended up costing her the post. Shortly after noon, she presented her resignation. The pandemic caused more than seven million deaths worldwide, but the WHO estimated an excess of mortality that exceeded 15 million at the time the pandemic was prolonged. In Spain alone, the dis…