Another covid-19 scandal: Minsal’s Health Planning chief also accuses that there was data manipulation



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After the statement to the Public Prosecutor of Andrea Albagli came to light, former Epidemiology official, who assured that she received an order from the cabinet of former Minister Jaime Mañalich to manipulate the numbers of infected with covid-19, now Another official of the Ministry of Health also supports the thesis that there was a handling of figures in the daily coronavirus report.

As disclosed Cyprus, the current head of the Health Planning Division of the Ministry of Health (Diplas), Johanna acevedo, he warned through an email sent to Mañalich’s cabinet, that there was a relevant difference between the figure released by the Ministry and those recorded by the ministry team.

On Wednesday, April 29, the difference in cases was 90 positives, and this was recorded in the email that Acevedo sent to Mañalich’s chief of staff, Itziar Linazasoro, with a copy to the Undersecretary of Health, Paula Daza. “I leave a copy of the total cases of Epivigila yesterday, which added 90 more cases than those reported today am”, indicates the email.

Before the Prosecutor’s Office, Acevedo indicated that the epidemiological reports should be adjusted to the figures managed by Mañalic’s cabineth. “Until May 19, she (Itziar Linazasoro) made the public report and sent it to me, and I had to verify that it was ok, and adjust the data from the epidemiological reports to what she announced,” she declared.

Acevedo assures that the information collected by his team was made from Epivigila and from the base of the laboratories that reported the PCR tests. However, the count released by the ministry was not based on such technical supports.. “I prefer that they ask them how they carried out the collection (of data),” Acevedo told prosecutors.



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