The Chairman of the Chamber of deputies of Brazil Rodrigo Maia has accused the Ministry of fraud statistics on the situation of coronavirus in the country. “Fun with death is bad practice. By manipulating the figures, the Ministry of health covers the sun with a sieve. It is urgent to restore the credibility of statistics”, – he wrote on his Twitter page

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The speaker of the Senate and the Parliament of Brazil Push Alkalomra also said on Twitter that the national Congress of Brazil refused to use the official data about the pandemic. “Special Commission for monitoring the coronavirus will work with statistics on the pandemic, which give the States and the Federal district. The task of the Parliament to ensure transparency in this difficult time,” wrote Alkalomra following the meeting with party leaders

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The Chairman of the Chamber of deputies of Brazil Rodrigo Maia has accused the Ministry of fraud statistics on the situation of coronavirus in the country. “Fun with death is bad practice. By manipulating the figures, the Ministry of health covers the sun with a sieve. It is urgent to restore the credibility of statistics”, – he wrote on his Twitter page. According to the Chairman of the lower house of Parliament, the Ministry, distorting the figures, “creates a parallel reality to ignore the facts.”

Maya said that the collection of relevant statistics will be engaged in the relevant Committee of the legislature, which are questions relating to the pandemic. The politician also urged the health Ministry to treat the statistics, “in all seriousness”, to publish it “in reasonable time” and to respect the citizens. “Death and disease is not a toy”, he concluded.

The speaker of the Senate and the Parliament of Brazil Push Alkalomra also said on Twitter that the national Congress of Brazil refused to use the official data about the pandemic. “Special Commission for monitoring the coronavirus will work with statistics on the pandemic, which give the States and the Federal district. The task of the Parliament to ensure transparency in this difficult time,” wrote Alkalomra following the meeting with party leaders.

On Sunday evening, the Ministry of health of Brazil has twice published statistics on the coronavirus at different sites. In the first case the Agency has posted on its website a link to information according to which the number of confirmed cases per day has increased by 12 581, the number of deaths – 1 382. However, an hour later on the official website, which publishes daily news appeared the following figures: total number of positive diagnostic results for coronavirus increased by 18 912 to 691 758, and the statistics of fatalities has been understated – 525 cases. The situation has caused outrage in the Brazilian media and social networks.

As reported by portal G1, the Ministry of health explained the adjustment data on the number of victims of coronavirus in Brazil, the errors in the statistics of individual regions. “In particular, we are talking about the statistics on [the state] Roraima, which published a report about 762 deaths, and after inspection of the Ministry of health revealed that the appropriate number – 142. Fixed another inconsistency concerns the [state] state of ceará, where the number of confirmed cases [of infection with coronavirus] after checking increased from 62 to 64 271 303” – noted in the Ministry.

Meanwhile, the largest Brazilian media network, Globo, Folha, Extra, Estadão and UOL – also refused to use the data of the Ministry of health and conduct their own count based on information from correspondents and local authorities in the regions. At the end of the day the difference with the official numbers of several thousands infected and hundreds dead.

With 3 Jun the Ministry of health of Brazil has postponed the time of publishing daily statistics on coronavirus at a later time, after the evening news, and on 5 June was to publish the truncated data that contains information only for the last 24 hours. Aggregate figures of the number of confirmed infections and deaths in the portal are no longer displayed. This approach was echoed by the President of the country Air Bolsonaro, according to which in the summary must include information about fixed at this particular day cases and deaths. Upon confirmation of the coronavirus in the analysis of the patient, who died earlier, this case must be considered in the reports on the day of death, not to include fresh data, says the head of the state.

Fearing fraud, the leadership of the regional departments of public health launched its portal, where each region specifies its own data as of 18:00, while summary Federal Ministry of health published closer to 22:00. Own calculations suggested that also maintain the highest state body in the sphere of audit. Brazil, where the first case of infection with the novel coronavirus was confirmed on February 26, ranked second in the list of countries with the highest number of infected people, second only to the United States. The number of deaths of a South American Republic is in third place after the USA and the UK.

Earlier, the President of Brazil supported the decision of his government to partially hide the data on the situation of the coronavirus in the country, as the current data, he said, do not reflect the real situation. In addition, the President of Brazil threatened to withdraw from the who for the Council to return coronavirus limitations. Bolsonaro told reporters that Brazil will consider the issue of withdrawal from the who, if only she will cease to be a “partisan political organization”.