Brazil stops releasing Covid-19 death toll and wipes data from official site | World news | The Guardian

Brazil stops releasing Covid-19 death toll and wipes data from official site | World news | The Guardian

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“It stains the history of Brazilian public health.”

Cardiologist André Longo, the health secretary of Pernambuco state in Brazil, responds to a decision by the country’s ministry of health to reclassify some deaths attributed to COVID-19 as being from other causes. The Brazilian government has stopped releasing the total numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths and has taken down the website that contained historical data. (The Guardian | 6 min read)