Isabel Celaá leaves Madrid by plane after declaring the state of alarm to undergo a medical check-up

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The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Isabel Celaá, left

this afternoon

, after participating in the

in which the Government has declared a state of alarm, to attend a medical consultation in Bilbao.

Sources from her team have explained to EL MUNDO that the minister was this Thursday night in Bilbao, where she has her usual residence, when she suffered an indisposition.

His trusted doctor in this city advised him to undergo a medical check-up as soon as possible.

Even so, she wanted to travel to Madrid this Friday to participate in the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers.

Then he took a plane to go to the doctor and his forecast is to return this Saturday to the capital to participate in the celebration of the

on Monday.

A passenger

on

flight

has identified the minister in a plane that left

airport at 2:45 p.m.

and landed in the capital of Biscay at

3:50 p.m.

Just an hour later, at 4:50 p.m.,

the decree activating the closure of the capital

was published in the

.

His departure, therefore, occurred before the ban on leaving the city began.

Criticism has been unleashed on social networks, where the minister has been reproached for not setting an example when the Government appeals to the responsibility of the people of Madrid to minimize their mobility.

According to the account of one of the passengers, the minister was the last traveler to enter the plane.

As soon as he landed, he rushed out of the aircraft, using a different departure gate than the usual arrivals gate, as is customary in the case of the authorities at all airports.

The minister had planned to participate together with the Minister of the Interior,

, in the presentation in Pamplona of some teaching units on terrorism.

That is why he was in Bilbao on Thursday.

But the event was canceled, after Celaá felt unwell the night before, although in her environment they explain that it is not anything serious and that is why she was able to participate in the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers.

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