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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said that people needed to “stop whining” about COVID-19 in his latest outburst against the protective measures to contain the crisis.
The far-right leader’s comments come as Brazil goes through its deadliest week of the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 1,900 deaths per day.
“Enough with the Fussiness, Stop the “Mimimi. Stop whining. How long are you going to keep crying about it?” Bolsonaro said as he called for easing restrictions. “We regret the deaths … But where’s Brazil going to end up if we just close everything?”
The South American country of 212 million people has had an outbreak of cases, partly due to a variant of the virus detected in the Amazon rainforest.
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Health system at risk of collapse
On Monday, the health officials of Brazil s states called for drastic measures to prevent a total collapse of the health system. They proposed a ban on events, the closure of schools, bars and beaches, as well as restrictions in public transport and national and international travel. They also suggested a nationwide curfew be imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weekdays and all day at the weekends.
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn t stopped people hitting the streets of Sao Paulo
Vice-President Hamilton Mourao responded negatively on Tuesday. He claimed that the fact that the regions were so different would prevent nationwide measures from functioning: How should they be implemented? By force? We are not a dictatorship. If we were a dictatorship, it would be easy, he said.
The coronavirus variant originally found in Manaus in Brazil and detected in six cases in the UK was able to infect 25% to 61% of the people in the Amazonian city who might have expected to be immune after a first bout of Covid, researchers say. The extent to which P1 can evade the immune system, and potentially vaccines, emerged as the UK health secretary said the hunt for one person who tested positive for P1 – but did not leave contact.
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