RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO : Brazil drew further criticism for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday after it published contradictory figures on fatalities and infections, deepening a scandal over the country's covid-19 data.Initial data released on Sunday from the health ministry on the number of cases and death toll in Brazil was later contradicted by numbers uploaded to the ministry's online data portal.On Monday, the ministry said in a statement the discrepancy was predominantly due to mistakes in the numbers from two states that were later corrected.
It explained that the later, lower daily death toll of 525 was the correct one.It said it had "been improving the means for releasing information on the national situation of.