He has returned to the Cuatrovientos neighborhood in Ponferrada after 22 days of confinement in South Africa. Santiago Fernández was surprised by the ‘lockdown’ on March 29 in Johannesburg after the Navarran wind farm company for which he works tried, without result, to remove a group of 47 Spanish workers from the African country where they were setting up a wind farm facility. renewable energy.
The company faced, time and again, flight cancellations until South Africa decided to close the airspace due to the coronavirus pandemic. Staying with his colleagues in a hotel near the airport, he waited for a solution that came from the hand of the Spanish consulted in Pretoria after South Africa authorized the charter of a flight to Germany on which the Spanish could travel. They thus avoided the possibility of remaining in quarantine for 3 months, the forecast that the president of the Government of the African country managed.
‘There were 22 days of uncertainty, but in the end we are here,’ he says from his home in Cuatrovientos where, again, he has had to confine himself without any whim ‘just being with the woman comes to me’, explains Santiago who also admits that Anyway, I would go back to look for work outside of Spain.
‘I would do it without hesitation because life is experiences,’ assures Fernández who, for the moment, is content to respect confinement in Spain after those 22 days of doubts and fear in a country where, he acknowledges, health resources are far from reaching the levels necessary to guarantee the safety of the entire population.
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