Update 2025-02-11 : Brazil has now restored the website that list the full information on Covid-19 in the country after it was say to do so by the Supreme Court , Brazilian mediaTV Globoreports .
Brazil ’s government has deleted months worth of datum from the official site that lumber Covid-19 cases , depart many in the country to incriminate the government of tyrannic censorship . Meanwhile , the country is confront the second - big Covid-19 irruption in the humanity with over 691,758 confirmed subject , according todata collectedby Johns Hopkins University .
On Friday evening , Brazil ’s Health Ministry removed the data from a alive internet site that had logged the irruption over time and by vicinity , reportsReuters . It was supervene upon over the weekend with anew portalthat turn back significantly less data , only expose the number of deaths , case , and recoveries within the last 24 hours .
Jair Bolsonaro , the far - correct populist chairperson who reportedly ordered the removal himself , defend the actions on societal media , tweeting : " The cumulative data … did not reflect the moment the rural area is in . "
The move has been wide criticized by scientists , aesculapian association , journalists , and members of Congress , all whoargue it ’s a clear attempt to control and manage information . Many have also suggested the young data does n’t add up and turn back inconsistencies .
" The manipulation of statistic is a manoeuvre of totalistic regimes,”tweetedGilmar Mendes , a Brazilian supreme court jurist . " The trick will not exempt responsibility for the eventual racial extermination . "
" The authoritarian , insensitive , inhuman and unethical endeavor to make Covid-19 invisible to the dead will not succeed , " Alberto Beltrame , President of the National Council of Health Secretaries ( CONASS ) , said in astatement . " It offends officials , physician , and all wellness professionals who have indefatigably consecrate themselves to saving lives . "
While the number of Covid-19 cases in Brazil continue to skyrocket , Bolsonaro is press for the liftingof lockdown bill and says the economic costs outweigh the risk to public health . In an overtlyTrumpian move , Bolsonaro alsothreatened on Fridayto pluck Brazil out of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , accusing it of being a " partizan political establishment " after the UN representation warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns .
Brazil presently does n’t have a health minster having recede their last two due to resignation since the pandemic began . The interim health diplomatic minister isEduardo Pazuello , a military superior general with zero experience in the field of healthcare or medical specialty . A former army captain himself , Bolsonarohas satisfy his political frontlinewith a number of top military officials .
President Bolsonaro hadpreviously dismissedCovid-19 as a “ little flu , ” but the body politic has since become engulfed in one of the most severe outbreak in the world , face the second - highest routine of confirmed case after the US and the third - highest death rate after the US and the UK .
