The director general of the Police, Francisco Pardo Piqueras, is admitted to a hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, according to eldiario.es, and police sources have confirmed to Europa Press. These sources add that he has had an improvement in the last few hours and that his hospital discharge is expected soon.
Francisco Pardo Piqueras repeated as director general of the Police in the legislature that started last January when he had the confidence of the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who elected María Gámez as the new director general of the Civil Guard.
On March 31, the positive of his 'number two', the deputy operational director (DAO) of the National Police, the chief commissioner José Ángel González, was confirmed. Thus, he joined the positives of his counterpart in the Civil Guard, Lieutenant General Laurentino Ceña, and the Director of Emergencies of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simón, all of them members of the coronavirus monitoring committee that meets every day in the Moncloa.
After the positive results of the DAOs, the technicians that they represent daily in the appearances from Moncloa to the Police and the Civil Guard are the main commissioner José García Molina and General José Manuel Santiago.
Within the Government there are already several cases of positive for coronavirus, since the contagion of the ministers Irene Montero and Carolina Darias was later added by that of the first vice president, Carmen Calvo. In the environment of the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, there are several infected relatives, including his wife, Begoña Gómez.
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