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The Ministry of Health transmitted to all the autonomous communities common criteria for counting those who died from the coronavirus pandemic in order to have daily homogeneous data that can be accumulated to give national data, as EL MUNDO has learned.

This has been confirmed to this newspaper by several regional governments, such as Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid or Navarra, among others. In an email sent on April 1 by the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Health of Castilla-La Mancha -in possession of this newspaper-, the Government again provides a table to account for all data (contagions, ICU income , deceased ...) and explains in detail what data must be entered in each table. As for the dead, Health clarifies that it is necessary to provide the "total number of confirmed cases for Covid-19 that have died since the start of the epidemic in Spain (01/31/2020)". This same table was also provided to the rest of the autonomous governments.

The Ministry headed by Salvador Illa, therefore, determined that to measure the evolution of the pandemic, only those who were confirmed would be counted as fatal victims, and not those suspected or probable by coronavirus infection.

The problem is that this system provided by Health to all the Autonomous Communities, as has been denounced by the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha, can cause an insufficient count of the number of cases, so that the actual deaths by Covid-19 could almost tripled those accounted for, as has happened in this region.

Following the same reasoning as the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha, the 13,798 deaths due to coronaviruses recorded to date could actually be between 27,000 and 41,000 killed by Covid-19.

In addition, the mortality data for these first months of 2020 is multiplying the 2019 data by up to six, making it very likely that many deaths are due to the coronavirus, although they are not being incorporated into the official figures.

In Madrid city, for example, between March 15 and 31, 2020, 5,950 people died, almost six times more than in the same period last year, when 1,100 died, according to regional government data.

The TSJCM released data from Castilla-La Mancha on Monday in a report according to which of 3,319 burial licenses that were issued in March, 1,921 were related to Covid-19, but only confirmed deaths were counted, as requested by the Ministry, that is, 708 deaths, almost a third of those possible.

Sources from the communities of Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid or Navarra, among others, confirm to EL MUNDO that the system they follow was established by the Ministry of Health for all of Spain.

The first to warn that the official data on those killed by coronavirus is not real was the president of the PP of Castilla-La Mancha, José Antonio Monago, who assured last week that "many more people die of coronavirus than is said "because there is, he added," an order "to" hide the real number "of deaths.

In his opinion, in Extremadura just over 130 people died last Wednesday of coronavirus, but "it is not true", since the Government, through a directive from the Ministry of Health "is canceling the autopsies and indicating that the death due to coronavirus without test, they should be noted as unconfirmed. "

Monago explained that these guidelines maintain that "if a person dies without having undergone the test, in the death part, the last one considered correct, that is, multiple organ failure, respiratory stress, or acute respiratory failure, must be included as the immediate cause" .

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