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One day after confirming the highest number of deaths in a day from coronavirus since the beginning of the crisis, Brazil reached the mark of 10,627 victims. Therefore, it became the sixth country with the most deaths caused by covid-19 in the world, behind the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and France. According to the Ministry of Health, 730 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, with 234 deaths in the last three days. The deaths confirmed this Saturday are close to the total number of deaths caused by dengue throughout 2019, a disease that still affects Brazilians, when 782 people died. Of the more than 4 million people infected with the sars-cov-2 virus in the world, 155,939 are in Brazil.
Regardless of the upward curve of the pandemic, President Jair Bolsonaro used it Saturday afternoon to ride a jet ski on Lake Paranoá, in Brasilia. On board the jet ski and without a mask, he took photos with followers who gathered on a deck to greet him. In a video recorded by the crew of a boat, which was preparing a barbecue and filming the meeting with the president, the country’s highest authority again underestimates the severity of the disease. “It is a neurosis. 70% [da população] it will catch the virus, “he said. However, the curve of deaths from covid-19 in Brazil doubled in 10 days: on April 28, when Bolsonaro reacted with a” so what? ” 5,107 The last president to be photographed on a jet ski, Senator Fernando Collor (PROS-AL) commented provocatively in a publication comparing him to Bolsonaro: “If it continues like this, it will sink.”
Bolsonaro preferred to step back on the invitation he had made to ministers and members of the Government for a barbecue at the Palácio da Alvorada. Throughout the week, he had told supporters, in the presence of the press, that he would host a party to cheer on the Union’s Comptroller General (CGU) Minister, Wagner Rosário, who is experiencing personal problems. The next day, as the negative impact of the barbecue announcement grew, he told reporters ironically that the event would host up to 3,000 guests at his official residence. However, on his Twitter, he said this Saturday morning that the barbecue he announced was “false”: he attacked the press and the Free Movement of Brazil (MBL), which, after politically breaking with the president, filed a lawsuit against the event
While Bolsonaro was riding a jet ski, far-right protesters again failed to respect the social isolation measures recommended by the World Health Organization and medical authorities to take another route from the city in a caravan for the resumption of the economy. The main targets of the protest, which ended in front of the Esplanada dos Ministérios, were former Justice Minister Sergio Moro, now seen as an enemy by the plateau, the National Congress and the Supreme Federal Court.
On the eve of Brazil officially breaking the 10,000-death mark of covid-19, Congress declared a three-day duel in a joint act edited by the Presidents of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre, and the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia. “This Parliament, which represents the people and the federal balance of this nation, is not indifferent to this moment of loss, sadness and pain,” reports the note signed by the leaders of the legislative chambers. The STF also declared mourning in honor of the victims of the pandemic. “We need, more than ever, to join forces, in solidarity and fraternity, for the preservation of life and health. The way out of this crisis lies in unity, dialogue and coordinated action, supported by science, between the powers, the institutions, public and private, and all the spheres of the Federation of that vast country, “said Minister Dias. Toffoli, president of the Supreme
Another institution that did not agree with the Government this Saturday was the Federal Public Ministry (MPF), which, through the Lawyers of the Republic of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, asked the Ministry of Health to collect information on the rate bed occupancy and The number of pulmonary ventilators in the private health network. The agency, which suggests the regulation of requests for private beds by public managers, recommends that the registration of hospital admissions of suspected and confirmed cases of coronavirus in all health facilities is mandatory. In a note, the MPF explains that the request for private health goods and services in a pandemic situation such as the current one is provided for in the Constitution. “It is up to the Ministry of Health and the local secretariats to adopt the measure when necessary, regulating access to private property according to the health priorities of each region,” the statement said.
During the week, Minister Nelson Teich said he was against the government’s use of private beds. He argues that, only if SUS collapses due to coronavirus-related hospitalizations, the government should open a way to negotiate with private hospitals. “We have to be efficient enough so that SUS can face [a pandemia]. If you reach the limit, you have to sit down with private health and complementary health, talk and see a way to bring complementary health to be part of this solution as cooperation and not as a way out for hospitals, “said the minister.
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