Bolsonaro limits information on the epidemic in Brazil, “...they don't reflect the moment the country is in”

Monday, June 8th 2020 - 07:42 UTC

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Brazil removed from public view months of data on its coronavirus epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes to official record-keeping of the world's second-largest Covid19 outbreak. Read full article

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DemonTree
He'll be claiming Brazil has fewer cases than Germany next...
Jun 08th, 2020 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pugol-H
Cases of what???
Jun 08th, 2020 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
Just a little flu, according to Bolsonaro. Boris may disagree...
Jun 08th, 2020 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
“Coronavirus infections in Brazil were first restricted to wealthy neighbourhoods and large cities in close contact with international travellers, but experts say, the virus has more recently made its way to poorer and more isolated areas - to devastating effects.
”COVID in Brazil came through the penthouse, but nowadays it is going through the dungeons,“ said Ana Maria Malik, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sao Paulo.
”The heterogeneity of the country means that people are going to die simply because they are poor or because they live in states where there is no infrastructure,” Malik said during an online panel discussion on Brazil's healthcare last week.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/brazil-coronavirus-fight-200527203202844.html
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