WHO director is not a doctor, says Bolsonaro live

President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday questioned the need for Brazil to follow the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) on social detachment to contain the spread of the coronavirus, and said that the agency’s director general is not a doctor.

“I am responding to a process inside and outside Brazil, they accuse me of genocide for having defended a different thesis from the WHO. Do people talk so much about following the WHO … is the WHO director-president a doctor? He is not a doctor, “Bolsonaro said in a live video broadcast on Facebook along with the president of Caixa, Pedro Guimarães.

“The same as saying here in Brazil that the president of Caixa was not someone from the economy. It doesn’t make sense. If I were president of Caixa, I wouldn’t do anything,” he added.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General since 2017, has a doctorate in community health from the University of Nottingham and a master’s degree in infectious disease immunology from the University of London, being recognized as an experienced health specialist, researcher and diplomat in research, activities. and leadership in emergency response to epidemics, according to the curriculum published on the agency’s website.

Bolsonaro disagrees with the WHO guide to social isolation of people as the best way to contain the virus. According to him, the economic impacts of the closure caused by the isolation are worse than the disease itself.

“If our income is going to fall, death comes sooner and that is what I have always tried to make known to the public,” Bolsonaro said. “I couldn’t escape the truth.”