Pazuello dismisses the idea of recounting the dead.
The Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, stated to the president of the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass), Alberto Beltrame, that the proposal to recount the deaths from Covid-19 in the country is "water under the bridge".
247 - Amid intense criticism of the Jair Bolsonaro government for changing the way coronavirus data is released, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello told the president of the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass), Alberto Beltrame, that the proposal to recount the deaths from Covid-19 in the country is "water under the bridge."
Beltrame suggested a new way of presenting the statistics. Deaths are counted on the day of death, not the day of confirmation. But without omitting the historical record.
"It was a technical and political error. This confusion happened unnecessarily. To fix a curve, you don't need to take down the website," lamented Beltrame. The account was published in Estadão Column.
According to the new method for releasing Covid-19 statistics, confirmed cases and deaths caused by the disease are only being presented for the 24 hours prior to the release of the figures.
At the request of the president of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), Felipe Santa Cruz, lawyer Walfrido Warde Júnior filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Federal Court (STF) against the withholding of data on the pandemic. The Supreme Court Justice, Alexandre de Moraes, is currently handling the case. ordered The return to the old way of releasing the numbers.