According to
CNN, some state health secretaries in Brazil have reported issues in sending
local data to the national health ministry in recent days.
About 80,120
people have died from coronavirus in Brazil since the pandemic started, new
figures from the country’s health ministry reveal on Monday.
Since Sunday,
632 people are reported to have died. The total number of infections in Brazil
is now 2,118,646 – an increase of 20,257 since Sunday.
Along with
President Jair Bolsonaro, two members of his cabinet announced they tested
positive for the virus on Monday.
The Brazilian
Minister of Education, Milton Ribeiro, announced he tested positive for
Covid-19 and just hours earlier, Brazil’s Minister of Citizenship Onyx
Lorenzoni tweeted that he had tested positive.
On Friday,
Mato Grosso’s state health secretary said a systems migration of data did not
affect its disclosure of the number of confirmed cases and deaths reported. On
Saturday, Rio de Janeiro state did not register numbers for the national tally.
Rio de Janeiro’s state health secretary said the issue has been fixed.
The state
health secretaries of Goias and Rondonia said difficulties in registering their
data may have been caused by problems in the health ministry system.
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