Brazil facing claims it's trying to hide scale of crisis as it stops publishing running total of Covid-19 deaths

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tweeted yesterday that disease totals are “not representative” of the country’s current situation.

Relatives watch cemetery workers shovel dirt over the coffin of a man who died of Covid-19 Image: Andre Penner/PA Images Relatives watch cemetery workers shovel dirt over the coffin of a man who died of Covid-19 Image: Andre Penner/PA Images BRAZIL’S GOVERNMENT HAS stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America’s largest nation.

On Saturday, the site returned but the total numbers of infections for states and the nation were no longer there.An ally of Bolsonaro contended to the newspaper O Globo that at least some states providing figures to the Health Ministry had sent falsified data, implying that they were exaggerating the toll.

While precise counts of cases and deaths are difficult for governments worldwide, health researchers have been saying for weeks that a series of serious irregularities with Brazilian government statistics was making it impossible to get a handle on an exploding situation. Where they find unexplained surges in deaths, it is likely due in large part to undiagnosed cases of the coronavirus.

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