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President Bolsonaro has underplayed the severity of the pandemicIn response to a perceived mishandling of coronavirus data by the Brazilian government, several local media outlets are partnering to create their own centralised database.
The unprecedented initiative by O Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S. Paulo, O Globo, G1 and UOL will allow them to share and corroborate official information about cases, deaths and other key statistics. "In the most acute moment of the pandemic, we need to ensure that the population has access to correct data as quickly as possible, whatever the cost," said online portal UOL's content director, Murilo Garavello.
It comes a day after months of Covid-19 data was removed from a government website. Brazil's health ministry also said it would now only be reporting cases and deaths in the past 24 hours, no longer giving a total figure as most countries do. Brazil has the world's second-highest number of cases, and has recently had more new deaths than any other nation. President Jair Bolsonaro has been criticised for rejecting lockdown measures recommended by the World Health Organization and, on Friday, threatened to pull out of the body, accusing it of being a"partisan political organisation".
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