Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus-related deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America’s largest nation.
On Friday, the federal Health Ministry took down a website that had showed daily, weekly and monthly figures on infections and deaths in Brazilian states. On Saturday, the site returned but the cumulative numbers of infections for states and the nation were no longer there. The site now shows only the numbers for the previous 24 hours.Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tweeted Saturday that disease totals are “not representative” of the country’s current situation.
Though precise counts of cases and deaths are difficult for governments worldwide, health researchers have been saying for weeks that irregularities with Brazilian statistics were making it impossible to get a handle on an exploding situation. On May 14, as independent investigators were questioning the inconsistencies, the Civil Registration office pulled more than 500,000 death certificates from its website, saying most were from Rio and it needed to review how the figures were tallied nationwide in order to make sure statistics were consistent year over year.
Brazil’s second most populous state, Minas Gerais, has recorded just 368 coronavirus deaths and has been praised for its handling of the pandemic. But data from Fiocruz, a respected, state-run biology foundation, show deaths from severe acute respiratory infections in the state rose eightfold from 2019 to 2020, to 1,796.
Because the Wuhan virus was a hoax!
How so sad !
same as influenza
Right wing governments murder their own citizens.
Brazil’s football teams stink now. Pitiful. Oh yeah they are doomed from this coronavirus thing. Doomed. doomsong
Isn’t what most Southern States Republican Governors are doing or has been doing? Hide information from their citizens or misinform and disinform their citizens!
What does that even mean?
Brasil's incompetence is embarrassing.
Brazilian president jairbolsonaro BREAKS the thermometer, hoping that it will stop the fever
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