• Spain.The PP denounces Fernando Simón before the Observatory of the Image of Women for "sexist" comments and Robles urges him to apologize

  • Health. The Nursing Council denounces "sexist and degrading comments" by Fernando Simón against nurses

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"I would like to talk about a controversy," Fernando Simón started the press conference this Tuesday to give an account of the coronavirus figures, in reference to his joke about nurses.

"Faced with a very silly joke, I was not able to answer correctly", admitted the expert who has acknowledged

"giving a bad answer in a public talk."

Fernando Simón: "I didn't ask them if they were infectious or not, you could see that a few days later"

The "sexist and humiliating" comments, as described by the Nursing Council, of Simon against the nurses, denounced by the Popular Party, were produced in an 'online' interview collected on the Pou brothers' YouTube channel.

In it, they asked him if he liked "infectious diseases or infectious nurses."

"I apologize to all the people and groups that I could disturb," he

added before breaking down the information on the coronavirus in the usual press conference.

"I'm sorry," he insisted. "" And I'm especially sorry for myself since I have tried to avoid those kinds of expressions and phrases, but it is clear that I have a long way to go to try to learn and do better.

"I will try not to make mistakes of this type at any other time," he

said.

For the joke, the Popular Parliamentary Group has registered this Monday a letter of complaint in the Observatory of the Image of Women, dependent on the Ministry of Equality, in which it denounces the sexist

and humiliating

comments made

by the director of the Center for the Coordination of Alerts and Health Emergencies (CCAES

), Fernando Simón, against the group of nurses.

The nurses charged the expert for a "sexist and degrading" joke.

The General Council of Nursing has considered the comments of the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies "an attack against the dignity of women and against the dignity of an essential health profession."

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