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President Jair Bolsonaro (no party) today denied calling the covid-19 virus “fluzinha.” In a live broadcast on a social network, Bolsonaro said that “there is no video or audio” in which he uses this term to refer to the virus “in this way.”
“I said back there that in my case, due to my past as an athlete, I did not generalize, if I took the covid I would not feel almost anything. The mainstream media say that I called the subject of covid a fluzinha. There is no video or audio of me talking about This. I spoke about my athletic state, my past life, because I always took care of my body, I always liked doing sports, “he declared tonight.
In March of this year, Bolsonaro used the term “fluzinha” twice. In the first, during an interview in Planalto, the president said that after the stabbing he suffered last year, he would not be “brought down by the fluzinha.”
“After the stab, it won’t be a little grip that will bring me down, okay? If the doctor recommends a reexamination, I will do it, otherwise I will behave like any of you here,” the president said after me. asked by a journalist if he had a new test to detect the coronavirus.
At the time, Bolsonaro did two tests for COVID-19 after at least 20 people who were with him on a mission in the United States tested positive.
A few days later, the president made a national statement on radio and television where he spoke about the situation of the coronavirus in the country. In addition to noting that it is necessary to contain the “hysteria” and “panic” at this time and ask that life “continue”, Bolsonaro said that, due to his “sports record”, he would not be seriously affected by the disease if contracts it.
“In my particular case, due to the history of my athlete, if I was infected with the virus, I would not have to worry, I would not feel anything or I would be, at most, with a cold or a cold,” said the president.
Brazil registers 691 deaths from covid-19 in 24 hours
In a survey released today by the Ministry of Health, Brazil registered 691 new deaths caused by the virus from yesterday to today. Thus, the country reached 171,460 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
37,614 new cases of the disease were also diagnosed in 24 hours. There are already 6,204,220 people infected with covid-19 in Brazil.
The country showed an accelerating trend in the average coronavirus deaths in two of the five regions.
