At the Iurreamendi residence in Tolosa, according to data from the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, a total of 37 residents have tested positive for COVID-19. However, this data doesn't show the whole picture. The ELA trade union reported on Tuesday 15 positive for COVID-19. The Iurreamendi worker says that the number of days has risen to 17. Through a writing she wanted to tell her situation, her day to day and what she experienced.

Written by Iurreamendi's worker:

"It is a sad, disastrous and incomprehensible situation. After all their working lives, our grandparents and grandmothers did not deserve this situation.

There are already 35 infected residents and those who will be infected. And we suspect that the worst is yet to come.

My question is: Why spread it so much in Iurreamendi? To these must be added the 17 positive workers.

Things have been done very badly from the start. We, the workers, have confined ourselves to doing what we have said, although we are not entirely convinced. The protocols change us from moment to moment, one sends one thing and the other the other. Our grandparents and grandmothers have gone from one place to another polluting every corner. We haven't had any fixed information, just what we heard in the hallways. The relatives have been there until a week ago...

The Iurreamendi workers themselves have been tested without any problem, while the sub-contractors, who account for 90% of the workers, have been hindered in doing so. If we don't have symptoms say we don't have to, when it's possible, as we know, to have no symptoms and be carriers.

We are very angry, very angry with the Basque Government, because they have not taken measures, because they have not known how to approach them with the Member, because a rapid test has not yet been carried out with Osakidetza, because it has not formed a crisis table with the Iurreamendi leadership from the very beginning, with 90% of the outsourced workers.

We are also angry with those who gave us two days ago a two-hour course (in the situation we were in), saying that we were taking advantage of PPE and that we would not have them when the peak came. If we had the PPE two weeks ago, if the decisions had been taken well, we would not be talking about these figures now.

It is true that an epidemic is a thing of the past and that we had hoped it would not return. To see if we learn this and realize that a good face mask is more important than a fast train."