Posted on 04/20/2020 6:49:43 PM PDT by brookwood
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-data/in-spain-coronavirus-death-counts-prompt-anger-confusion-idUSKBN2222AQ World News April 20, 2020 / 12:28 PM / Updated 5 hours ago In Spain, coronavirus death counts prompt anger, confusion Joan Faus
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain already has one of the world’s highest death tolls from the coronavirus pandemic. But data indicating the true number of fatalities could be much higher is fueling public anger and could cause problems for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s fragile government. FILE PHOTO: Concepcion Espinar, 85, and medical workers look out from the window of the Ramon Berenguer nursing home in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, outside Barcelona, Spain April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Nacho Doce -/File Photo
Spain’s total deaths rose to 20,852 on Monday. But the figure fails to account for those who were more than likely killed by the virus but never tested.
Fernando Simon, the national coronavirus emergency response chief, has acknowledged that the “real number of deaths is hard to know”.
The country has been in strict lockdown since March 14, although restrictions have been eased slightly since last week.
But most people remain cooped up in their homes. And sometimes families burying their dead are not even certain what their loved ones died of.
In a nursing home near Barcelona, an 85-year-old woman died on April 8 of “possible” COVID-19, said her daughter Amparo, citing a doctor’s death certificate
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spain already has one of the world’s highest death tolls from the coronavirus pandemic. But data indicating the true number of fatalities could be much higher is fueling public anger and could cause problems for Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s fragile government. FILE PHOTO: Concepcion Espinar, 85, and medical workers look out from the window of the Ramon Berenguer nursing home in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, outside Barcelona, Spain April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Nacho Doce -/File Photo
Spain’s total deaths rose to 20,852 on Monday. But the figure fails to account for those who were more than likely killed by the virus but never tested.
Fernando Simon, the national coronavirus emergency response chief, has acknowledged that the “real number of deaths is hard to know”.
The country has been in strict lockdown since March 14, although restrictions have been eased slightly since last week.
But most people remain cooped up in their homes. And sometimes families burying their dead are not even certain what their loved ones died of.
In a nursing home near Barcelona, an 85-year-old woman died on April 8 of “possible” COVID-19, said her daughter Amparo, citing a doctor’s death certificate
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