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Fernando Simón defended himself this Tuesday from the forceful report of the coroner who participates in the 8-M judicial investigation, assuring that his department "always" made the decisions evaluating "very very detailed" all the epidemiological information "available". "We have underestimated any risk and all the information that has been passed and all the responses that have been given in pandemic situations have been taken as quickly as possible," he assured.

The director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts has responded in this way after the coroner assigned to the Investigating Court Number 51 in Madrid, who investigates the conditions in which feminist protests were authorized despite the threat of the coronavirus, made a very critical of health authorities. Among other conclusions, he affirms that both Simón and the Ministry of Health "underestimated the severity" and that "the catastrophe was seen to come" with the mass of people there were.

Far from this analysis, Simón has insisted in the official version of Health that the performance of his department was adjusted at all times to the epidemiological information "available" and provided by the autonomous communities. And that at that time was not indicative to prohibit the feminist marches on March 8 due to the risk of massive contagion.

"Our assessment after verifying the information a thousand times is that decisions like those made at other times could not be made," Simón has reaffirmed during a press conference in Moncloa.

Although the director of the Health Alerts Coordination Center acknowledges that "after the experience" we have had "we all would have wanted to avoid the cases and the deceased", he stressed that "decision-making must be done based on information minimally solid evidence already available. " Things that ensures that they did not count at that time. What is more, given the doubts about the speed when acting, Simón added that Spain has been "earlier" than other countries in ordering restrictions.

EXCUSE THE DELAY: "IT WAS THE HIGH TIME"

On the other hand, the judge investigating the 8-M case, Carmen Rodríguez-Medel , has today reproached the "reluctance" of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts when providing information to the Investigating Court through a car. number 51 of Madrid. Asked about it, Simón has excused himself in that the request for data came when they were in "a complicated situation of work", "at the height of the epidemic, and that therefore an involuntary delay could have occurred.

"I do not know if there was any delay or not, but if there was, it was not at all intentional. All the information has been requested," he said, stressing that despite the "many hours of work" in which they were so "they did everything they could" and they "made an effort" to follow their instructions and contribute everything that was being demanded of them from the court.

Simón explained that there could have been a bit of confusion in the first moments regarding what was asked of them because he pointed out that it was necessary to "clarify with them what they were asking for." But once those doubts were resolved, it was sent.

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