Prosecutor to investigate removal of website containing coronavirus data in Brazil.
“This is serious, illegal, and unacceptable. The Ministry of Health cannot withhold information from the people, researchers, managers, and professionals,” said regional public prosecutor Wellington Saraiva. The website containing information about the pandemic in Brazil has been offline since Friday.
247 - Regional public prosecutor Wellington Saraiva said on Twitter that he will investigate why the Ministry of Health's website, which presents the numbers on the progression of Covid-19 in Brazil, is offline.
The website has been down since Friday, when Bolsonaro announced changes to how coronavirus data updates would be presented.
“This is serious, illegal, and unacceptable. The Ministry of Health cannot withhold information from the people, researchers, managers, and professionals. I will request an investigation. The portal's removal can only be accepted if it was due to maintenance, an attack, or a technical problem. If it was taken down by someone's decision, this violates the Access to Information Law (#LAI), at the very least. It is necessary to investigate who is responsible,” wrote Wellington Saraiva.