A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the country's administration to make its coronavirus data publicly available. Brazil, which has the third-highest confirmed COVID-19 death toll, has been pushing to reopen amid record new daily case numbers.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, seen greeting supporters late last month in Brasilia, has argued that the economic fallout from stay-at-home orders is worse than the virus itself.Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, seen greeting supporters late last month in Brasilia, has argued that the economic fallout from stay-at-home orders is worse than the virus itself.A justice on Brazil's top court has ordered the president's administration to make its coronavirus data publicly available.
Brazil's government, caught in the throes of South America's worst coronavirus outbreak, abruptly ended public access to much of its past data earlier this month, instead sharing only the number ofBut de Moraes said that concealing such information may hobble efforts to understand the virus, interfere with the public interest and, in general, have"disastrous consequences" for the country's response to the pandemic.
The legal drama is unfolding against a backdrop of increasing urgency in Brazil, which has suffered the world's third-highest confirmed COVID-19 death toll, behind the United States and United Kingdom.
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