Bolsonaro strips death toll and case totals from Brazil's coronavirus updates

Running tallies deleted in apparent move to play down status as third-worst country for deaths and second-worst for infections

Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease.

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