Unai Rementeria announced at a press conference Tuesday that the Provincial Council of Bizkaia has started working on the stage following the coronavirus pandemic. To get out of the coronavirus crisis and the activation of the economy, Bizkaia Aurrera! He explained that the plan is being developed. At the same time, he added that work is being done in the present, which is urgent. “For us, social services remain the most urgent, especially nursing homes; the elderly in Bizkaia are the most vulnerable in this crisis and our absolute priority,” he said.

In giving rise to the journalists' questions, a journalist from Onda Cero addressed the issue of nursing homes in the Basque Country. He asked Rementeria what he has to say to those who say that there is a lack of information on the part of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia about the deaths in nursing homes.

“I can assure you that we are expanding information from all the areas we have to report as a Deputy,” Rementeria said, adding that every 48 hours they give the number of positive cases in nursing homes.

She indicated that the Provincial Council of Bizkaia is transferring from the outset to the Department of Health and the CAV Public Prosecutor's Office the number of deaths in residences. “So we are giving these numbers in total transparency, where we have to give them,” he stressed, without extending to journalists the number of deaths in nursing homes.

Complaint to hide information

In early April, EH Bildu de Bizkaia denounced that the Provincial Council of Bizkaia is hiding the amount of deaths occurring in nursing homes. The Abertzale training indicated that, in order to be aware of what is happening at the social headquarters, sources are being gathered from the municipalities. It considered it very serious not to receive this information through the institutions.