Spain records no virus deaths for second day running
03 June, 2020
Spain recorded no deaths from the coronavirus for the next day running, the health ministry reported Tuesday, while acknowledging some "discrepancies" in the reported daily figures.
The ministry's daily report recorded 34 deaths over the previous week, but none over the prior 24 hours. It was Monday's report on the prior a day that first broke a run of daily reported deaths dating back to March 3.
To date, Spain has recorded a complete of 27,127 deaths from the virus, rendering it among the worst-hit countries on earth.
But Fernando Simon, head of the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies, also told journalists of the ongoing concern at "day-to-day discrepancies" in the data -- divergences that might be "verified", he said.
Because the health ministry introduced a fresh approach to tracking cases, inconsistencies have appeared in the info.
But Simon stressed that the priority now was to stay vigilant and to discover new cases as fast as possible -- which they were managing to do, he added.
So far Spain has detected practically 240,000 cases of the virus.
Step by step, it really is gradually easing what was one of the world's strictest lockdowns imposed to slow the spread of the virus.
Source: www.thejakartapost.com
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