Brazil Restored to International Covid-19 Data Ranking

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The real time monitoring of Johns Hopkins University on the novel coronavirus cases in the world is now the benchmark. global reference. After the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s decision to no longer disclose the history of data related to the country, the website, which includes information from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and local agencies, removed Brazil from its list.

However, last night, the country was back in the ranking, holding the position of the second most affected according to the university, behind only the United States, which has 1,919,430 people infected.

On Saturday morning, June 6th, the government’s website, intended to inform the population about the Covid-19 situation in the country, was updated; it now only provides data on recoveries of the disease, new infections, and deaths, without disclosing the total number of cases and fatalities, as was the case before.

The full report released by the Ministry of Health last Friday, June 5th, recorded 35,026 deaths and 645,771 confirmed cases. In one day, another 1,005 deaths and 30,830 infections were added to the report – which placed Brazil, according to Johns Hopkins, in the uncomfortable position of the third country with the highest number of deaths from the disease in the world. According to the monitoring, 645,771 are infected in the country.

In a note, the university said the decision was due to the temporary suspension of the Brazilian Ministry of Health from disclosing data on Covid-19. “Until the data are available again, we are displaying the latest official figures we have (from June 4th). Once the data is again available, we will correct it,” they said.

Source: Exame