BRASILIA (REUTERS) - Brazil's top court waded into the controversy surrounding official reporting of coronavirus death and infection figures, as a Supreme Court justice ruled the Health Ministry must revert to releasing the full set of data it had previously made available.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BRASILIA - Brazil's top court waded into the controversy surrounding official reporting of coronavirus death and infection figures, as a Supreme Court justice ruled the Health Ministry must revert to releasing the full set of data it had previously made available.
Last week it pushed back the release of the numbers late into the evening and past Brazil's main news programme. The government's actions in recent days have made it"impossible" to monitor the spread of the virus and to implement adequate and necessary control and prevention policies, he said.
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