“We will not accept the policy of staying home, closing everything...” said Bolsonaro Despite the growing number of covid-19 cases nationwide, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Wednesday insisted there would be no further restrictive measures and ruled out a full-scale lockdown. “It would be much easier for us to sit still and calm down, not touch on this topic or get together, as some want. The national lockdown. There will be no national lockdown,” said Bolsonaro during a visit to the municipality of Chapecó, in the west of the southern state of Santa Catarina. “We will look for alternatives, we will not accept the policy of staying home, closing everything, blocking. The virus is not going away. This virus, like others, is here to stay, and will stay for life. It is practically impossible to eradicate it,” the president went on.