President continues to argue for lifting lockdowns as Brazil’s coronavirus death toll surpasses Italy
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro waves to supporters during the inauguration of a field hospital in Aguas Lindas, in the State of Goiais, Brazil, on June 5 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
In an editorial running the length of newspaper Folha de S. Paulo’s front page, the Brazilian daily highlighted that just 100 days had passed since Bolsonaro described the virus now “killing a Brazilian per minute” as “a little flu.”“While you were reading this, another Brazilian died from the coronavirus,” the newspaper said.
With more than 34,000 lives lost, the pandemic has killed more people in Brazil than anywhere outside of the United States and United Kingdom. “The epidemic, the outbreak, in Latin America is deeply, deeply concerning,” she told a news conference in Geneva. She said among six key criteria for easing quarantines, “one of them is ideally having your transmission declining.”
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