Brazil has eliminated months of data on the Covid-19-the epidemic in the country from the health ministry’s website.
It happens at the same time, the disputed president Jair Bolsonaro defends forhalinger and changes of the official statistics on the pandemic development in Brazil. It is the worst affected country in the world after the UNITED states, when it comes to the number of smittetilfælde.
The brazilian ministry of health removed according to Reuters the many data from a website earlier this weekend.
the Website, which documents the epidemic’s development in the regions and municipalities, has been given a new layout and now contains only a small fraction of the previous information.
Brazil has 676.000 smittetilfælde, and the number of deaths with the corona virus was Sunday 36.044, which is more than in Italy. The number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in Brazil, at 17.
The data was removed from the general public on Saturday (local time).
– The overall data does not reflect the situation in the country at the present time, writes Bolsonaro on Twitter, referring to a memo from the ministry of health.
– New actions are put in time to get improved tables of cases and confirmation of diagnosis, called it on.
Bolsonaro has time and again downplayed the dangers of the pandemic and replacing the health care systems in the ministry of health with officers from the military.
the President has argued against shutdowns as a means to halt the spread of the new coronavirus.
Neither Bolsonaro or the ministry has explained why the data is removed on the official website covid.saude.the gov.br.
– Transparency in all information has great importance for the fight against the epidemic, writes Paulo Jeronimo de Sousa, who leads The Brazilian Pressesammenslutning.
The global number of dead with the coronavirus passed on Sunday, as 400,000 according to the latest statement from the u.s. Johns Hopkins University.
The global death toll due to the pandemic reached 300.000 15. in may, while it is nearly 20 days earlier, had rounded to 200,000.
worldwide is approaching the number of confirmed smittetilfælde seven million. Global is a little over three million declared healthy.
