Brazil is hiding its coronavirus figures

[Chris Smith]

• Brazil’s coronavirus stats can no longer be trusted, as the country moved to hide its total number of COVID-19 cases.
• President Jair Bolsonaro defended the decision not to show the cumulative COVID-19 caseload for the country, saying it doesn’t reflect “the moment the country is in.”
• Brazil has the world’s second-largest coronavirus caseload at the moment, with more than 710,000 confirmed cases as of Monday morning.

The novel coronavirus is hardly ready to die, even though the hot season is coming in. In fact, the exact opposite is happening, the number of new cases is rising faster than ever. Countries in Europe, New Zealand, and US states are among the regions where local authorities have started relaxing the stricter social distancing measures that were imposed in the past few months. But the world experienced this massive health crisis differently. It all started in China, and then the COVID-19 epicenter moved to Europe and then the US. Then cases in Russia spiked, and it’s Brazil the new epicenter of the contagious disease right now. Brazil became has the second-largest number of COVID-19 cases in the world after the United States. But Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro might not be happy with those stats. Going forward, we’ll have a tough time trusting the figures coming out of the administration, as Brazil decided to hide crucial coronavirus data.

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