translated from Spanish: Not just in Chile: Brazil’s “dance of numbers” with coronavirus

Figures on the advance of coronavirus not only make it difficult for the government of Sebastián Piñera with its zigzagging strategy when counting the deceased. In the neighborhood there is another country that suffers with the data and has had a dance of numbers.
This is Brazil, the country ruled by Jair Bolsonaro, whose administration on Monday increased confusion around the coronavirus crisis after presenting in a short interval of hours disparate figures on COVID-19 cases and deaths. The controversy adds to the decision to omit the consolidated data on the disease.
The Ministry of Health reported on Sunday night a total of 1,382 deaths and 12,581 COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours. But soon after he presented a new balance in which he reported 525 deaths and 18,912 new infected ones.
The “number dance” increased pressure on the Executive and ignited criticism of Bolsonaro, which has occurred over the weekend on charges of an “information blackout” after removing from the official website the total number of cases and deaths, posting only the figures recorded in the last 24 hours.
Added to this is the ministry’s decision to delay the publication of the data, three hours later than usual, the ministry’s decision to call the coronavirus crisis in the second country with the most cases in the world, behind the United States, to be detailed by 22.00 local time.
Amid the controversy, the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia, harshly criticized the Government and accused him of “playing with death”, by changing the methodology in the dissemination of the figures.

Original source in Spanish