Cumulative case and death numbers have disappeared from a government website; the president and others have questioned their accuracy.
. President Jair Bolsonaro, who continues to dismiss the disease even as it maims his country, has repeatedly questioned the accuracy of the data and grown increasingly assertive in his efforts to restrict access to it.His administration rescheduled the daily release of data last week so that it would come out after newspaper deadlines and nightly news programs. Bolsonaro said Friday that the delay “stopped the stories in the ‘National Journal,’ ” a popular nightly news show.
“I believe there will be more trustworthy data because the number that we have today is fantastical or manipulated,” he said.Without offering evidence, he said that data had been inflated by local health officials who, “purely in the interest of getting bigger city and state budgets, are saying everyone had covid.
The growing lack of transparency underscores how completely Bolsonaro has taken control of the country’s federal response to the pandemic. He fired former health secretary Luiz Henrique Mandetta after they publicly clashed over the need to maintain social distancing and temporarily close nonessential businesses.
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