Numbers of the week: Jul. 5, 2020

This is Brazil by the Numbers, a weekly digest of the most interesting figures tucked inside the latest news about Brazil. A selection of numbers that help explain what is going on in Brazil. This week’s topics: the latest Covid-19 numbers, another education minister, fake news about Covid-19, Operation Car Wash goes back a decade, low-income students without internet, another child killed in Rio, some good news for Brazilian industrial production, Bolsonaro’s allies inaccurate predictions, and the Amazon rainforest continues to burn.

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64,200 deaths, 1.5 million infections

Brazil’s Covid-19 death toll stands at 64,265. The country still has the second-highest number of losses globally, only behind the U.S. However, Brazil’s figures are likely to be much higher, with a huge suspect of underreporting. And despite an average of 1,200 daily deaths, several cities are already reopening their economies.

229 Covid-19 rumors debunked

The spread of Covid-19 in Brazil has been closely followed by waves of misinformation about the pandemic, says Brazilian fact-checking group Agência Lupa. The agency said there were at least five major waves of misinformation in Brazil, characterized by the intense circulation of false and misleading content on the same topic over a short period of...