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The Mayor of Tomelloso (Ciudad Real) , Inmaculada Jiménez , has calculated that a hundred people have died in the town due to the coronavirus, data that "are contrasted data of this City Council, but are not official data", before which the counselor of Health of Castilla-La Mancha , Jesús Fernández Sanz , has said that the data by population will be provided by the National Statistics Institute when the pandemic ends.

In an institutional statement, Jiménez has affirmed that the pandemic "has hit the town hard" and added: "We all know this."

Thus, he specified that the data handled by the City Council, "despite not being official", indicate "that today more than 100 people have died due to the coronavirus" and stressed that "this is contrasted data from this City Council , but they are not official data, because since the beginning of this crisis the competent health authority has decided not to offer the data by locality. "

Therefore, it has replied to those who accuse it of lack of transparency that it cannot offer data that it does not have.

"This is not the time for partisan fights, hoaxes and false news that the only thing they do is disdain and feed the pain, alarm and panic in our neighbors," said the councilor Tomellosera, who has had words of encouragement and respect for the families of those killed by Covid-19, who "will remain in the collective memory" of the people, and has also sent a message of hope to the sick.

Jiménez has stated that, since the beginning of this public health crisis, the City of Tomelloso took measures aimed at guaranteeing the health of the residents, the continuity of essential services and the maintenance of minimum services at the City Council, and adopted "measures direct fighting "against the Covid-19, such as the closure of public spaces or disinfection campaigns.

"I am convinced that together we are going to end this pandemic that is attacking us," concluded the Mayor of Tomelloso.

No data by populations

The Minister of Health of Castilla-La Mancha, Jesús Fernández Sanz, has been asked about these death figures in the press conference he has offered this Tuesday to report on the incidence of the coronavirus in the region and has assured that, as he has said on several occasions, it will not provide data by population, because that will correspond to the National Statistics Institute when the pandemic passes.

"I do not know what the source of the mayor is, nor can I discuss it nor do I want to get involved in that matter. I am not going to enter into a war of figures with either a people or another people," said Fernández Sanz.

In any case, he has specified that some people who are not from this town die in Tomelloso, because "the area is larger and patients come from other areas."

The Minister of Health has insisted, in this way, that it will be the INE "when all this ends, the one that makes a concrete review of hospitalized, attended and deceased cases" by population and there will be "a good statistic", although it has bet for not entering, at the moment, in the "data game that leads nowhere".

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