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Brazil Stops Publishing New Coronavirus Data as Death Toll Mounts

HeadlineJun 08, 2020

The government of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has stopped publishing new reported coronavirus deaths and infections. Brazil’s health minister on Friday took down a website that had published daily, weekly and monthly numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths. When the website went live again Saturday, the total numbers of infections for states and the entire country were missing. Brazil recently overtook Italy as the country with the third-highest COVID-19 death toll.

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