Brazil's government resumed publishing the country's total death toll from the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, after facing accusations of trying to hide the
pandemic Tuesday, after facing accusations of trying to hide the magnitude of its raging health crisis.
That drew accusations of foul play from a long list of high-profile critics, as well as a ruling from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday that the government must return to the old format. The ministry said the total number of confirmed infections had risen to 739,503, the second-highest caseload in the world, after the US.
The health ministry did not immediately respond to questions from AFP on why it returned to the old format and its plans for the future.famously compared the virus to a"little flu," has railed against the consensus response to the pandemic, saying stay-at-home measures are needlessly wrecking the economy.
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