A member of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit (UME) wearing a full personal protective equipment disinfects outside the Archaeological Museum amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Health Ministry on Tuesday defended changes to its methodology for recording coronavirus data that have led to wild fluctuations in daily statistics and provoked sharp criticism by opposition parties.
On Monday the government revised down the country's overall death toll from the epidemic by nearly 2,000, and while Tuesday's reported cumulative toll of 27,117 was 283 higher than Monday's, the ministry said just 35 people had died from the disease over the past seven days.
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