Brazil stops releasing Covid-19 death toll and wipes data from official site
by Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from on (#54DZE)
Government accused of totalitarianism and censorship after Bolsonaro orders end to publication of numbers
The Brazilian government has been accused of totalitarianism and censorship after it stopped releasing its total numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths and wiped an official site clean of swaths of data.
Health ministry insiders told local media the move was ordered by far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, himself - and was met with widespread outrage in Brazil, one of the world's worst-hit Covid-19 hotspots, with more deaths than Italy and more cases than Russia and the UK.
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