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Brazil removes COVID-19 data from govt website
Last Updated : 07 Jun 2020 10:53:31 PM IST
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro

 

Brazil has removed months of data on the COVID-19 pandemic from a government website amid criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the outbreak which has so far infected over 645,700, the media reported on Sunday.

On Saturday, the Health Ministry removed from its official website the COVID-19 data it had been documenting over time and by state and municipality, reports the BBC.
 
Instead, the Ministry only stated that there were 27,075 new cases and 904 deaths in the past 24 hours.
 
It also said that 10,209 patients had recovered.
 
On Twitter, Bolsonaro said "the cumulative data... does not reflect the moment the country is in", but he did not explain why the information had to be removed or could not be released. He said additional measures were being taken to "improve the reporting of cases".
 
The decision has been widely criticised by journalists and members of Congress.
 
The removal of the data happened after Brazil reported more than 1,000 deaths for four consecutive days, said the BBC report.
 
With 645,771 infections, Brazil currently accounts for the country with the second highest COVID-19 cases in the world.
 
According to health experts, this number expected to rise even further as the outbreak is still weeks away from its peak.
 
Last week, Brazil's death toll surpassed that of Italy's, placing the nation third in the world, behind only the US and the UK.
 
As of Sunday, the death toll stood at 35,026.
 



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