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This Monday (8), the Ministry of Health announced that Brazil registered 987 new deaths caused by covid-19 in the last 24 hours. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 266,398 deaths from the disease across the country.
According to the folder, there were 32,321 confirmed cases of covid-19 from yesterday to today, which has caused the country to reach a total of 11,051,665 infected since the start of the pandemic.
According to the federal government, so far 9,782,320 people have recovered from the disease and a further 1,002,947 have been followed up.
Senate Commission will listen to Pazuello, Guedes and Ernesto Araújo
The Senate temporary committee that monitors public health issues related to the covid-19 pandemic approved today the call for hearings with three ministers to explain the role of the portfolios.
The request was presented by the rapporteur, Senator Wellington Fagundes (PL-MT). Four hearings are scheduled with the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello (the first for March 18), four with the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes (the first for March 22), and one with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo (March 29).
The president of the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts), Ana Arraes, will also participate in the hearings; the Minister of CGU (Comptroller General of the Union), Wagner Rosário; governors; mayors; health secretaries; and commercial representatives.
The plan also provides for meetings with the presidents of the Butantan Institute and Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation), as well as representatives of pharmacists.
Vehicles gather for information
In response to the decision of the government of Jair Bolsonaro to restrict access to data on the covid-19 pandemic, media Twitter, El Estado de S. Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, G1 and Extra formed a consortium to work collaboratively to seek the necessary information directly from the state health departments of the 27 units of the Federation.
The federal government, through the Ministry of Health, should be the natural source of these figures, but the attitudes of the authorities and the president himself during the pandemic cast doubt on the availability of the data and its veracity.
* With information from the Senate Agency
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