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In her statement before the Prosecutor’s Office, the head of Health Planning of the Minsal, Johanna Acevedo, assured that the number of infected by Covid-19 was adjusted by order of the now former minister Jaime Mañalich, words similar to those of the former epidemiologist of the Ministry, Andrea Albagli.
As published CyprusOn April 29, Acevedo, who was in charge of one of the Minsal counting systems – the other was Mañalich’s staff – warned of inconsistencies between the two figures in an email.
“Until May 19 she (Mañalich’s chief of staff, 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, “he told the Prosecutor’s Office.
Regarding whether the content of the epidemiological reports should be limited to the figures released by the minister, Acevedo indicated that “they had to be consistent with what was reported by the authority. I pointed out that I always reported everything to the authority, internally, but the epidemiological reports published had to be consistent with the information that the minister announced in the public account “.
The official indicated that although the counts were unified in May, that does not mean that all cases of Covid-19 have been reported.
“For me it was important to leave a daily record, including complete information, of all the new infected by Covid-19. I understand that my responsibility is to raise the complete information to the authority,” he said, ensuring that he sent emails periodically with the actual figures.
“There were several methodologies. The first from Mañalich generated a gap with respect to the reporting that we had, later a different system of crossing Civil Registry bases with a laboratory was developed, but also does not correspond to the correct form, because there is a process of recoding the cause of death that DEIS does beyond the PCR result, in case that death is not attributable to Covid, “Acevedo sentenced.
