Initially, the ministry reported that 1,382 people died between Saturday and Sunday and the total figure rose to 37,200, but later published a new balance with 525 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
Playing with death is diabolical. By changing the numbers, the Health Ministry covers the sun with a sieve. It is urgent to rescue the credibility of statistics’, Maia wrote on the social network Twitter.
He estimated that ‘a ministry that tortures numbers creates a parallel world so as not to face the reality of the facts’.
He announced that ‘the House external committee dealing with Covid-19 will focus on statistics. It is urgent that the Health Ministry publishes the numbers seriously, respecting the Brazilians and at the right time. You cannot play with deaths and patients’, Maia reiterated.
The health leaders, whose head is General Eduardo Pazuello, reported that a new criterion will be used to count the victims of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in which the deaths on the last day will not be specified.
The government published last Thursday, three hours later, the figures that showed that Brazil surpassed Italy in human losses and was third in the world ranking behind the United States and the United Kingdom.
For these facts, Bolsonaro receives strong criticism and the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo published an editorial on Monday questioning him for not providing reliable data.
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