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A day after announcing that he will promote a barbecue for 30 guests this Saturday, at the Alvorada Palace, President Jair Bolsonaro joked when asked about fraternization, without making it clear whether or not it will take place. If confirmed, the party will take place on a date that will likely be remembered for the sad mark of more than 10,000 deaths caused by the new coronavirus in Brazil, according to the latest bulletin published by the Ministry of Health, 751 deaths were recorded in the 24 hours between Thursday and Friday, reaching a total of 9,897, in addition to 145,328 confirmed cases.
Bolsonaro avoided answering journalists’ questions if the barbecue was not a bad example due to the need for social isolation and said, ironically, 1,300 people were already confirmed.
– Barbecue, I’m just inviting the press. It already has 180 guests – Bolsonaro said, before the supporters who laughed, beginning an escalation of ironies about the number of guests for the event: – Two hundred and ten have already done so. There are 210 heads of household, tomorrow there should be 500 people at the barbecue.
Shortly after, the President continued the ironies and said that the number of confirmed had just increased:
– Everyone is invited here, 800 people at the barbecue. There is one more person from Águas Lindas, 900 people will be confirmed. There is one more person from Taguatinga, 1,100. Will everyone be here tomorrow? 1,300 people at the barbecue.
On Thursday, when he first spoke about today’s barbecue, Bolsonaro said he would commit a “crime”, mocking the recommendations of health authorities to avoid the crowds:
I am committing a crime. I’m going to have a barbecue on Saturday at home. Let’s talk, maybe a little peladinha, some ministers, some more humble servants.
Vice President Hamilton Mourão said Friday that he was not invited to the barbecue. After participating in an event with Bolsonaro, at the Ministry of Defense, Mourão laughed that the fee for participating in the celebration in Alvorada, of R $ 70 per person, is very expensive.
– The president hasn’t told me about the barbecue yet. And R $ 70 is very expensive.
There was much criticism of Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to promote a barbecue in the midst of the new coronavirus pandemic, when most Brazilians avoid social gatherings, even tomorrow, on Mother’s Day, several families will pass the date as a precaution . The former ally of the president, federal deputy Alexandre Frota wrote on Twitter: “On Saturday we will reach 10,000 deaths in Brazil. And Bolsonaro is going to have a barbecue. What are you going to celebrate?
Senator Randolfe Rodrigues also cited the sad mark that the country is expected to achieve this Saturday: “Brazil has no president! Whoever does a barbecue in front of 10,000 deaths, with thousands of families feeling the pain of Covid-19 on their skin, is not a head of state! It is irresponsible. There is no precedent in the world for this. ”
The deputy and former leader of the Bolsonaro government in Congress, Joice Hasselmann, also used the social network to criticize the president: “While the PR (President of the Republic) is going to fraternize at a barbecue with 30 people, hospitals in his state, RJ, More than THOUSAND people are collapsing waiting for a bed in the capital. Yesterday (Thursday) there were 155 deaths. Without words of consolation, without action, without visitation. But so, right, @jairbolsonaro? “
Fernando Haddad, a PT candidate defeated by Bolsonaro in the second round of the 2018 elections, called for the cancellation of fraternization: “Bolsonaro, today (yesterday) we had a new record of deaths. Probably not your acquaintances. They are Brazilians who will not even be veiled. Don’t do that barbecue. It is very aggressive. There is nothing to celebrate! “
The barbecue statement joins a series of unfortunate Bolsonaro phrases amid the pandemic of the new coronavirus. On March 19, when some Brazilian cities had already taken restrictive measures to contain the contagion, Bolsonaro said he would have a family party in Alvorada to celebrate his birthday and that of the first lady. The party did not happen.
At the end of March, he declared that the country would not reach a high number of deaths from the disease because “the Brazilian has to be studied. The boy takes nothing. I saw a guy over there jumping into the sewer, get out, dive … okay? And nothing happens to him ”. Bolsonaro has already called Covid a “flu”, said he was not a undertaker when asked about the increase in deaths and asked “so what? When the country passed to China in number of deaths from coronavirus.
The leaders of countries in Europe, Asia and Central America also caught the world’s attention with their attitudes and statements about the advancement of the new coronavirus. G1 reported on March 31 that the words Covid-19 and coronavirus were banned in Turkmenistan. According to the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the dictator Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov determined that the words should be banned in the state media and even in private conversations in the Asian country. According to Reuters news agency, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko declared on April 13 that no one would die from Covid-19 in the European country, when his own Ministry of Health confirmed 29 deaths from the disease. “No one is going to die of coronavirus in our country. I declare it publicly. We have already found combinations of drugs to save people, “he said, justifying that the deaths already registered were” the result of pre-existing health conditions of patients, such as heart problems and diabetes. “In an interview with the English newspaper” The Times, “Lukashenko called his concerns about the disease” psychosis “and suggested that drinking vodka, going to saunas and driving trucks would help fight the virus, in addition to hockey games.
On April 16, the newspaper “El País” reported that the President of Nicaragua, in Central America, reappeared after 34 days. In a televised statement, Daniel Ortega sympathized with relatives of the Covid-19 victims, but minimized the impact of the pandemic in his country and did not justify his absence for more than a month. Arguing economic reasons, he ruled out decreeing quarantine or social isolation, although many Nicaraguans had already voluntarily adopted distancing. While the country’s highest authority was absent, the official policy promoted by Ortega’s vice president and wife, Rosario Murillo, promoted the crowds through her Summer 2020 plan, which included camp masses, concerts, marathons, home visits at home to fight viruses and a political march called “Love in the time of Covid-19”. celebrated at Easter.
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