OVIEDO, Spain
Spain's Ministry of Health readjusted its official data today, reporting 585 new deaths between Thursday and Friday.
The official death total is now 19,478 -- up only 348 compared to Thursday.
"We are trying to correct the data so that it is coherent […] We had a discrepancy with one regional government so we had to readjust," said Fernando Simon, Spain's chief epidemiologist, in a press conference on Friday.
The number of recoveries was also reduced, with the new total at 72,963.
On Friday, Spain also registered 5,252 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to more than