Updated:
Tuesday,
08 December, 2020
22:22
Published:
08.12.2020 21:44
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The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, in an interview on ‘Cadena Ser’, explained the reason why the plan for Christmas includes the possibility of traveling between the days December 23 and January 6 to visit “relatives”, in addition to family members. A term that has turned out controversial for its ambiguity.
“You can look for many legs to the cat, but what we want is that nobody is alone after confinements so hard, “he explained, insisting, however, that” the less we get together and move the better. “
Thus, he recalled that “they have been very hard months” and it can be understood that “you want to be with someone with whom you have no family affinity but do not want Christmas to spend alone.” “This is what we wanted to allow,” he stressed. For this reason, those who in this way try to skip the regulations, he criticizes them for “doing it very badly.”
In this sense, the minister has stated that “there cannot be a policeman in every house“, so” social control must take place, so that together we can achieve compliance with the measures. “
Illa has also explained in this interview how Christmas is going to pass. He will travel to Barcelona, where he lives, and will meet with “a maximum of five” people, his wife, daughter and parents, who have just overcome the coronavirus. with his family. As a minister, he says, “I have to comply to the letter and I do it convinced“, has affirmed.
By this time, as he has done repeatedly, the minister has asked that “let’s make one last effort cause the vaccine is just around the corner“.
Your relationship with the opposition
During these months of pandemic, Illa acknowledges that she has become angry with the opposition “because it cannot be banalized.” “It is possible to disagree and think that more or less restrictive measures are needed, but it cannot be trivialized,” he asserted.
I would have liked more height of state “
He says that this is one of those circumstances where he considers “that you have to be united“. “I would have liked more height of state. I have tried to solve this in the best possible way, but the more united the better. “
Thus, he explained that he has a good relationship with Enrique Ruiz Escudero, Madrid’s Health Minister, although he points out that “there was a clash in September because the situation in Madrid was not good.” This is how he explained it: “They were in favor of taking more gradual measures and we understood that they had to be more forceful. We saw that the matter was wrong“.
About the vaccine
Regarding the coronavirus vaccine, Illa has confessed that she was very upset that the CEO of Pfizer “the bonus is casque the day the vaccine was announced. It will be legal, but it is not correct“, referring to the sale of more than 60% of its shares to earn a lot of money.
In Spain, he considered that “the pharmaceutical industry had reputational problems, in many cases hard-won, and in this pandemic I have seen that they have lived up to the challenge.” Even so, he has claimed that the “predominance of the public” in the vaccine process is key.
In addition, the minister has advanced that the remaining vaccines will be given to the countries that need them. “We will have almost double what we need, we will see if more are needed or if a third dose will be necessary, but those that remain will go to those who need them“.
The mask could stay
“The mask does not just disappear suddenly and in some environments we will use them “, Illa has indicated, yes, according to what the experts advise.
For example, he said, when going to a medical center. “Now no one will find it strange, it has its advantages,” he acknowledged.
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