Municipalities and states are reporting issues uploading information to the health ministry's platforms and web pages for the public, which have often shut down.
Brazilian health officials have big data gaps amid a rise in COVID brought on by the Omicron variant and the flu, eliciting public health researcher Marcelo Gomes to tell the Associated Press,"We are blind."
"Accesses to the systems have been normalized, but it's still possible to observe that the data suffer impacts from the hacker attack," wrote the national council of health secretariats toWhile COVID cases are also surging, there is also an outbreak of influenza that has similar symptoms. This has caused confusion among people, creating lines at pharmacies for tests and reportedly long waits at health clinics.
A large private diagnostics company, Diagnosticos America, told the AP that it was seeing a sharp increase in the percentage of positive versus negative tests — often a sign that the virus is becoming more widespread. It said the positivity rate went to 40 percent on Jan. 5 from about 19 percent on Dec. 29.
"The simple fact that an attack has occurred demonstrates a lack of a well-structured information security policy," she said. Gomes, the researcher at Fiocruz, said that fuller information would have helped people make decisions on travel and gatherings over the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
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