The popular spokesperson asks Brussels what data the government has transmitted to her about deaths from coronavirus and why the differences with other international organizations are due.
The PP Spokesperson in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, asked the European Commission today what data has been transmitted by the government about deaths from coronavirus and for what reasons may be the differences found in the figures handled by other international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission itself .
In a written question sent to the EU Executive, Montserrat noted that "the Spanish government has reported figures on the number of deaths from Covid-19 that do not match the official figures reported by WHO and by the European Center for Control and Disease Prevention (ECDC) ”, an agency that reports to the European Commission, and that“ these figures also differ substantially from those handled by Spanish public institutions such as the Carlos III Health Institute or the INE ”.
While the Ministry of Health has published the last number 27,128 deaths, the WHO raises this figure to almost 30,000 and the ECDC has reported 27,940 deaths as of June 4.
For this reason, the popular spokesperson has asked the European Commission what she thinks these important differences in the data considered are due to.
Montserrat has also been interested in what are the figures that the Spanish authorities have communicated to the European Commission and its dependent bodies.
The popular spokesperson has also asked how the data exchange between the Spanish government and the European Commission is carried out, and also how the European Commission values the impact that these important differences in data can have to give an effective response to the pandemic. of the coronavirus.
