Businessman and official MP forced his workers with coronavirus to go to work

In audio, broadcast on the radio Sarandí and reproduced by other means, Estévez claimed his employees continued to work with Covid-19.

The MP had already gained notoriety last September when he voted on a bill favoring his business, violating the rules of the House of Representatives.

“I had Belén (town of Salto) with eight positive points on the bus and they never stopped working ”, said Estévez, according to the newspaper The Republic.

A few days ago, the legislator had mentioned the need for employees to harvest.

Workers in the sector have expressed concern about the number of people with Covid-19 on buses sent for this purpose.

In this regard, Estévez sees the recording as a “stupid” concern.

“I was infected and not all of the MPs were washed, the two who were next to me were washed,” he said.

Estévez asked to be received by the Colorado Party Ethics Committee and by the bench of this force in the House of Representatives to explain his statements and make his defense.

Colorado’s National Executive Committee will debate the issue at its weekly meeting Monday, before Estévez appears, the statement said. Portal of Montevideo.

With less than 3.5 million inhabitants, Uruguay had 209,867 confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, of which 25,230 people had the active infection and 2,918 died of the disease, according to the latest official report, published. last night.

It is on a declining epidemiological curve, averaging more than 2,400 infections per day over the past seven days, 1,500 fewer than at the start of April, when it had one of its peaks.

But also it calculates 17.31 deaths per million population, the highest record for the average of the last seven days in the world.

At the same timeUruguay is one of the countries having applied the most vaccines against the coronavirus, with a rate “a little slower” than that of Israel, said the director of the Planning and Budget Office (OPP), Isaac Alfie.

The secretary of the presidency, Alvaro Delgado, announced yesterday an agreement with the American laboratory Pfizer to increase the number of vaccines that Uruguay receives each week and that in May they will reach half a million.