October 21, 2020The VOX deputy in the General Board of the Principality, Sara Álvarez Rouco, has referred today to the report prepared by the Ministry of Health, in which she discards that the hotel industry is the main source of contagion of COVID-19. "The Asturian Government must abandon harassment of the hospitality industry and stop unfairly incriminating the sector with the sole objective of blaming its poor health management on a sector they condemn, Asturians or young people, but never themselves. ”, Explains the deputy.
"The data is provided by the Socialist Ministry of Health itself: catering is by no means the main source of contagion and while they aim for curfews and confinements, they allow the virus to spread through Residences for the Elderly, putting our most vulnerable at risk ”. According to the report, explains the deputy, made public on October 15, focuses the outbreaks in family gatherings and / or friends of the coronavirus in Spain. “The document indicates that 193 outbreaks and 1,263 new cases were registered in family or friends gatherings, compared to seven outbreaks and 53 cases detected in bars and restaurants. Therefore, it is not the hospitality or nightlife that are the main focuses and, on the contrary, it focuses the infections in family or friends gatherings "
For this reason, the deputy points out that “you cannot permanently create bad press about hoteliers because it is deeply unfair. As we have already said from our parliamentary group, it seems more like they want to end the usual way of life of Asturians ”. In this sense, Álvarez Rouco insists that in Asturias “businesses cannot take any more and will be forced to close. We demand that the Socialist Government base its measures on objective and scientific criteria, instead of being constantly installed in declarations with electoral criteria ”.