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Date Published: 19/06/2020
ARCHIVED - Revised Covid fatalities total for Spain is now 28,313
There are nine current outbreaks in Spain, all of which the Health Ministry says are under control
The Spanish Ministry of Health has finally issued a revised death total for the number of fatalities officially recorded in Spain during the Covid-19 crisis, and has raised the total by 1177 this Friday to 28,313, which is now the official number of deaths so far from the virus.
The Ministry revised its system for reporting daily Covid data towards the end of May, but since then has consistently failed to publish updated data leading to confusion and accusations that the Ministry is trying to hide the true extent of the pandemic and its impact in Spain.
Opposition politicians have been scathing in their attacks on Government handling of the crisis and the non-availability of accurate data has unnecessary added fuel to their fire during the period in which the government has failed to make accurate daily reports.
Daily data based on cases diagnosed using the PCR swab test system (not the rapid antibody tests which are not included in the official figures)is gathered from the 17 autonomous regions of Spain and presented the following day, but the Health Ministry said that the figures needed to be revised as records pertaining to the actual date of death were known to be inaccurate and requested that the individual health services rectify the entries made in the central system, a process which has taken nearly two weeks longer than intended.
However, the figures are still not believed to be accurate and two separate sources both indicate considerably higher mortality levels than have been reported through the “official system”.
The Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid has produced its own analysis via the Daily Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo) which takes into account data between March 12th and May 13th this year, comparing it to the sme period in previous years.
Their calculations show 43,360 more fatalities than would normally be expected in this same period, so whereas 77,362 deaths would be the average between these dates, there were 120,722 during the same period this year, representing an increase of 56%.
The Government maintains that the figure of 43,000 from the MOMO may also include people who died for different reasons, some of which will be indirectly due to the pandemic; some will have avoided going to a hospital to treat other ailments or did so too late.
However, the Ministry has still not provided data on patients who died in nursing homes as a result of Covid-19.This is expected to add significantly to the reported totals as for example, 5,981 of the 15,043 people reported to have died in the Madrid region alone, died in care homes.
Nine active outbreaks
The Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, said that there have been 34 “outbreaks” in Spain during the last month, accounting for 982 people. Currently, nine of these outbreaks remain active, but the Minister said that "they are all under control."
During the last four days there has been a steady increase in the number of new cases reported; on Thursday there were 143 new cases in Spain.
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