Brazil reported 679 new COVID-19 deaths and 15,654 additional confirmed cases on Monday, as controversy grew over the country’s official coronavirus data
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO - amid allegations of manipulation from a senior lawmaker.
The numbers the government issued on Monday were the same as those reported earlier by the National Council of Health Secretaries , which brings together the heads of Brazil’s state health departments but is separate from the federal health ministry. In a statement on Monday, the health ministry said its weekend dataset problems stemmed primarily from mistakes in the numbers from two states that were later corrected.
“By changing the numbers, the Ministry of Health covers the sun with a sieve,” Rodrigo Maia, speaker of the lower house, said on Twitter.
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