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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) corrected this Tuesday the figures on Spain that it had published on Monday in relation to the number of PCR tests carried out to detect the coronavirus. Spain is no longer in the eighth position of the member countries, but in the seventeenth and below the average.
In a statement, the OECD expressed regret "the confusion created in a sensitive issue by a debate on methodological issues" and published a new comparative table with updated data for the 36 states of the organization taken from the Our World in Data ( OWID) platform. ), from Oxford University.
Spain is relegated to seventeenth position with 22.3 tests for every 1,000 inhabitants, below the average of 23.1 and of the countries that lead the list such as Iceland (135), Luxembourg (64.6) or Italy ( 29.7).
The director of the Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón , assured on Tuesday that Spain sent the OECD the data of the diagnostic tests broken down by PCR and serological tests and that it used them "as it considered".
The Ministry of Health asked this organization for clarification on how it collects the coronavirus test data from the rest of the countries, following the criticism it received, including from the PP, after the report was known.
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