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The Ministry of Health has informed this Tuesday of the people who made up the committee of experts that evaluated the de-escalation and made the reports that determined if each autonomous community could pass the phase.

According to the information that the Ministry has delivered to Maldita.es, Fernando Simón,

13 other technicians from the Ministry of Health and the epidemiologist Javier Segura

were part of this group

.

The information has been made public after a request for access to this information made by the media last May.

Until now, everything had been

obstacles to the communication of the formation of the committee

.

Specifically, according to the document delivered, the committee members were 15: Fernando Simón, María José Sierra, Berta Suárez Rodríguez, Pello Latasa, Carmen Varela, Pilar Soler, Elena Vanessa Martínez Sánchez, Lucía García San Miguel, Oscar Pérez Olaso, Susana Monge, Carmen Olmedo, Silvia Rivera, María C. Vázquez, Paloma González Yuste and Javier Segura del Pozo.

Except Javier Segura, all the members are technicians who work for Health.

María José Sierra, for example, is number 2 for Fernando Simón in the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES).

In addition to Simón and Sierra, seven other members of the committee also signed the letter in

The Lancet

in which they defended the management they had made of the pandemic in our country.

The ministry in its resolution also states that "the preparation of the technical reports generated during the process was carried out by a team of professionals made up of technicians attached to the Ministry of Health and technicians appointed by each of the autonomous communities" and that "They worked as a team sharing the information available and jointly reviewing the assessment of the situation."

On May 6, Fernando Simón, director of CCAES, refused to give the names of the members of the committee, pointing out that it was "

a team of technicians

who work in the General Directorate of Public Health."

But on November 30, the Council for Transparency and Good Governance ordered the Ministry of Health to release the names of the committee of experts referred to by the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, as in charge of advise the Government on the management of the coronavirus pandemic, considering that the right to data protection is not violated and, on the contrary, it favors the control of public activity by citizens in "relevant decisions".

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