Brazil 'driving in the dark' on COVID-19 as data scandal deepens

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RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (REUTERS) - Brazil drew further criticism for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday (June 8) after it published contradictory figures on fatalities and infections, deepening a scandal over the country's Covid-19 data.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO - Brazil drew further criticism for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday after it published contradictory figures on fatalities and infections, deepening a scandal over the country's Covid-19 data.

On Monday, the ministry said in a statement the discrepancy was predominantly due to mistakes in the numbers from two states that were later corrected. It explained that the later, lower daily death toll of 525 was the correct one. "The credibility of the statistics needs to be urgently recovered. A ministry that manipulates numbers creates a parallel world in order not to face the reality of the facts,"he added.

 

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