Brazil Breaks COVID Record With Over 90k New Cases as Bolsonaro s Approval Ratings Sink Newsweek 3/18/2021 Aila Slisco © Rodrigo Paiva/Getty Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends a swearing-in ceremony for air force cadets in Pirassununga, Brazil on December 4, 2020.
As Brazil hit a record high number of new COVID-19 cases, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hit a record low public approval rating over his handling of the pandemic.
Brazil recorded a single-day record of more than 90,000 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday. An opinion poll published by Brazilian newspaper
Folha de S.Paulo on the night before found that 54 percent of respondents believed that the president s management of the public health crisis was bad or awful, according to Reuters. Support for a potential impeachment of Bolsonaro was also 4 percent higher than a poll taken in January, rising to 46 percent, although 50 percent of respondents still opposed impeachment.
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But more than a year later, she is still in her home country, fighting on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic.
Racing to keep up with the crush of patients at a sports complex turned field hospital in the suburbs of Sao Paulo, Gomes looks far from the carefree spirit of carnival.
The parking lot quickly fills with ambulances carrying patients struggling to breathe, young and old alike.
“It’s caught us by surprise. Our patients now tend to be young, with no pre-existing conditions. The disease hits them hard and a lot of them die,” said Gomes.