Spain Uses New Guidelines to Count CCP Virus Deaths

Health authorities are reshuffling the way to track the pandemic’s impact in the country with new guidelines to count the dead.

Staff members of the Gregorio Maranon Hospital applaud to pay tribute to cleaning workers in Madrid on April 1, 2020, during a national lock-down to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Photo by Oscar Del Pozo/AFP/Getty Images

MADRID—Spain says there are now 19,478 deaths of patients who tested positive for the CCP virus, nearly 350 more than the number reported one day earlier, and 188,068 confirmed infections with over 5,000 new ones.

Health authorities are reshuffling the way to track the pandemic’s impact in the country with new guidelines to count the dead, while an effort to make more tests is counting hundreds of patients cured or without symptoms that weren’t recorded before.