A Brazilian supreme court judge has asked President Jair Bolsonaro and his office to resume publishing data related to COVID-19 after the administration’s decision to not publish statistics on the official website prompted people to accuse them of manipulation and attempting to hide the crisis in Brazil.
The Brazilian government has been widely criticized by lawmakers, healthcare officials and the public for eliminating the data related to COVID-19 situation in Brazil from the health ministry’s website and announcing that it will no longer be sharing the cumulative data related to coronavirus-related death toll or number of infections in the country.
Bolsonaro’s officials claimed that it will help them “refine” the official coronavirus data. However, the critics believe that it is just an attempt by the government to hide the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and the situation in Brazil due to it and that the officials are making illegal use of their power.
Some people have even compared Bolsonaro’s decision with some of the authoritarian countries such as North Korea and Venezuela, wherein the government believes in the suppression of information. Some even pointed out Brazil’s past, wherein the military regimen hid facts about the meningitis epidemic during the 1970s, which led to greater devastation.
Meanwhile, coronavirus-themed parties have gained significant popularity in Brazil with people in many places and this is leading to rage among healthcare workers.
A doctor, Ticyana Azambuja, was beaten up savagely by members of one such party in Rio de Janeiro when she finally snapped and decided to teach them a lesson.
She decided to pick up the hammer and smash the smash the rear windshield and wing mirror of the card of one of the attendees.
“ I just wanted them to come out and listen to me. I’d pay to fix the car, but they needed to understand how ridiculous it was to be throwing those parties day and night … right in the middle of a pandemic,” she said.
Many enraged partygoers saw her and knocked her out, leaving her with fractures to her knee, hands and neck. The incident was filmed by a neighbor on a video.
The neighbors rushed her to a hospital afterward but the party went on as usual.
Even as the coronavirus numbers in Brazil continues to climb, such parties have been reported in several cities, including Curitiba in the south and Amazon in the north.
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