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Luiz Henrique Mandetta fell, Nelson Teich was placed at the head of the Ministry of Health, and the portfolio returns to the head with President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party), in another week that could be decisive in facing the pandemic of the new coronavirus, responsible for more than 11,500 deaths in Brazil.
“Did you leave today?” Teich admitted yesterday that he was taken by surprise during a press conference at the ministry, when he learned from a journalist that the president had included gyms, beauty salons, and hairdressers among services considered essential and therefore able to function during the pandemic. . new coronavirus.
“You can work on the return of some things. Now treating it as essential is an initial step,” he said at first. “Did you leave today?” He said, interrupting his reasoning. “It is not our job, this is the president’s decision,” he continued, who has been criticized for the delay in taking action in the face of the crisis.
Teich even released the topic to another folder. “What I believe is that any decision that implies the definition as essential or not, implies the ability to do it in a way that protects people. But just to make it clear: it is a decision of the Ministry of Economy, it is not ours” he he claimed.
“Everything that is decided can be reviewed. There is a dialogue that allows us to take a position if necessary,” he concluded, without making it clear whether Bolsonaro will be charged.
Bolsonaro’s justification: “Health is life”
The gym is life. People are increasing their cholesterol, they have stress problems. [Com as academias] We are going to have a healthier life. The hairdressing problem too. Getting your hair and nails done is a matter of hygiene. “
Negative evaluation of the president shoots up
Jair Bolsonaro’s positive government evaluation ranged from 34.5% to 32%, according to a CNT / MDA survey published today (12). The Bolsonaro government’s negative evaluation has soared: from 31% to 43.4%. The last survey was carried out in January of this year.
According to the CNT (National Transport Confederation), 2,002 telephone interviews were carried out between May 7 and 10, with people from 494 municipalities, from 25 Federation Units. The margin of error is 2.2 percentage points.
Assessment of the government of President Bolsonaro in May 2020:
- Great: 14.3% (was 9.5% in January 2020)
- Good: 17.7% (was 25% in January 2020)
- Regular: 22.9% (was 32.1% in January 2020)
- Bad: 11.1% (was 9.5% in January 2020)
- Terrible: 32.3% (was 21.5% in January 2020)
- Don’t know / did not answer: 1.7% (it was 2.4% in January 2020)
The survey also found that 67.3% of the population showed support for the isolation measures and more than 62.5% considering that postponing the 2020 municipal elections may be a necessary measure due to the pandemic.
United States goes to Europe in cases and numbers from Brazil
The American continent exceeded the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Europe according to data from the WHO (World Health Organization). The figures are drawn by the United States, the current epicenter of the pandemic, and by Brazil, which has entered an accelerated curve of cases and deaths. For some days, the American continent had registered more cases and deaths than the Europeans.
According to data published today, which represent official cases registered until yesterday, the Americas reached 1.74 million infected people. Europe, on the other hand, is starting to see a slowdown in the number of cases and deaths, which have been halted by Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Today, the continent has 1.73 million cases.
Brazil is the worst country in Latin America, followed by Peru, Ecuador and Mexico.
The number of people killed in the country by the new coronavirus pandemic is already 11,519, according to the latest update made today by the Ministry of Health. In the past 24 hours, 396 deaths were confirmed. The portfolio also announced that, so far, the country has registered 168,331 confirmed cases of covid-19. From yesterday to today, there were 5,632 new diagnoses. The government also reported that 82,344 patients are being followed up and 69,232 have recovered from the disease.
Instagram blocks Bolsonaro’s posting of fake news
Instagram concealed a post by Jair Bolsonaro today (without a party) in the stories feature and stated, along with fact checker Agência Lupa, that the President of the Republic had shared false information about the coronavirus.
Bolsonaro’s publication said, without evidence, that the state of Ceará would have had fewer deaths from respiratory diseases between March 16 and May 10, 2020 compared to the same period last year. The President even wrote that there was “something very strange in the air.”
“False. It is false that, in Ceará, the number of deaths from respiratory diseases decreased in 2020,” says the justification presented by data verifiers, who search social media to reduce the spread of false news.
SP and car rotation
The secretary of Mobility and Transport of the city of São Paulo, Edson Caram, said that the implementation of the new rotation, since yesterday, has caused an improvement in the traffic rate. However, a report from Twitter shows that there was crowding on public transport.
“City traffic practically returned to what it was when the decree of the pandemic mayor, the rates were very similar and the migration to public transport was not great. In part he migrated to the train, part to the subway and part to the bus the bus, the increase was very small, about 300 thousand passengers, that is, 150 thousand more passengers, who count back and forth, “he told TV Globo.
The agglomerations observed yesterday in the metropolitan train system in the capital of São Paulo could be confirmed by official figures from the São Paulo government. According to the management of João Dória (PSDB), on the first day of the new rotation scheme, the use of CPTM increased by 12% and the metro also had a significant increase in the number of passengers, by 10%.
Doria: the enemy is the virus, not isolation
São Paulo Governor João Doria (PSDB) used Twitter today to again defend social isolation as a measure against covid-19. According to the toucan politician, the virus is the enemy of the economy and not the quarantine.
We are facing the most serious health crisis of the last century, which generates serious economic impacts. Social isolation saves lives and prevents the collapse of the health network, forcing government officials to take even tougher measures. pic.twitter.com/47O16qeL9I
– João Doria (@jdoriajr) May 12, 2020
Interior of São Paulo: cases increase 99% in 11 days
The number of coronavirus cases in the interior of São Paulo has grown 99% in the last 11 days. The serious data was released today during a state government press conference. On May 1, 4,389 people were infected with covid-19. As of yesterday, the number of infected has increased to 8,733.
Emergency aid may last longer
Created to alleviate the loss of income of the population affected by the economic crisis generated by covid-19, the emergency aid of R $ 600 (R $ 1,200 for single mothers) can be maintained after the end of the pandemic. The statement is from the special secretary of Productivity, Employment and Competitiveness of the Ministry of Economy, Carlos da Costa, who participated yesterday (11) in a live broadcast promoted by the BTG Pactual bank.
According to Costa, the government is discussing whether emergency aid and other aid measures should last the initially planned three months or whether they should be gradually dismantled, in a process of transition to a new economic model.
“We can’t turn the key on and off suddenly,” he said, referring to the possibility of maintaining the benefit in the second half of this year.
Heroines: The Life of Nurses at Covid-19
Luciane Rodrigues, 42, had been out of hospitals for five years to dedicate herself to teaching nursing. In late April, she was called to work at ICU Covid-19. He thought twice and accepted. But he did not tell the family. “My mother found out and now she doesn’t sleep well,” he says. “Being here is a passion. I understand that I received a call. Not everyone receives it and they have the courage.”
Wearing a mask, cap, goggles, gloves, foot protection, and two layers of clothing, Luciane only removes clothing during the only interval she does during the 12-hour shift. The day that the Universa report was at the Ipiranga State Hospital, it was eight consecutive hours of work, from 7 am to 3 pm, without water or bathroom. When she went to lunch, she was nervous: a patient had just coughed up his face.
This is the routine of the professionals that Universa followed, in which coldness and affection, fear and courage are mixed and they were heard in two hospitals in the city of São Paulo. “Whoever stays in bed for 24 hours, sees all the suffering, the improvement, the deterioration, the pen in hand and cares for the closest ones, it is us.”
Jair Renan Bolsonaro’s girlfriend loses in relation to covid
“It’s not a little cold.” This was the warning given by the model and businesswoman Luana Dellevedove, who is named as the girlfriend of Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the “04” son of the President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro (without a party), after a relative died as a result of the covid-19.
In messages shared on Instagram, he reports that Nicolina Dellevedove died yesterday, noting that the reason was covid-19. “I cry, rest in peace, my great-aunt,” she wrote. “Yes, unfortunately the second coronavirus death in Limeira (SP) belongs to my family,” he said.
In a longer message, he appeals to government officials: “Reflect, reconsider, put yourself in the shoes of so many families who are going through what our family is going through. Respect the pain of so many people. I really would like the government to be more respectful of each life cut off and suffocated by the coronavirus. ” Both Bolsonaro and his son Jair Renan have been criticized for recently speaking of the disease as a “little cold”.
The pandemic opens a gap for right-wing radicalism
In Brazil, the United States or Europe, the groups have met to call for an end to the quarantines. If the argument is different in each region of the world, some aspects unite them: you can see national flags in the demonstrations everywhere. Researchers from different institutes point out how an organized extreme right has used the pandemic as an opportunity to expand.
With quarantines affecting dozens of countries, millions of people in their homes have been bombarded by conspiracy theories. Studies show that in times of crisis and fear, there is a strengthening of extremism. One of these studies was presented by the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed), the US central bank. According to the survey, there was a relationship between the strengthening of Nazism in Germany and the effects of the 1918 Spanish flu.
And the coronavirus pandemic has facilitated the spread of false news, such as theories of being a “Chinese virus,” and reports troubling cases, the most serious of which is white supremacist Timothy Wilson, who was planning attacks in a hospital in Missouri (USA) with covid-19 patients.
UK leads death toll in Europe
The number of covid-19 deaths in the UK reached 38,000 in early May, by far the worst reported in Europe, raising questions about the way Prime Minister Boris Johnson handles the crisis. of the coronavirus.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for England and Wales brought the UK’s official death toll to 38,289 by May 3, nearly 6,000 more in the span of a week, according to a data count from Reuters death records
Despite this, the film and television industry can resume its activities from this Friday (15), provided that social distancing measures are respected.
Hydroxychloroquine: study shows disappointing result
A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) notes that hydroxychloroquine cannot prevent covid-19 deaths and can still cause heart problems, both alone and associated with azithromycin.
The research, conducted on patients in New York State hospitals, is the largest of its kind and corroborates with another study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, which also showed that the drug it does not work against the new coronavirus.
Among hospitalized patients with covid-19, treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both was not associated with a significant decrease in mortality. “
Minister Teich said that anyone who opts for treatment with the drug must understand its risks by authorizing it.
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