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The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, criticized this Wednesday measures that seek to restrict population movements in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and assured that “hunger kills much more than the virus itself.”
Bolsonaro expressed his point of view in an appearance before journalists, without accepting questions, while The country registered a new daily record in the number of deaths on Tuesday because of covid-19, of 3,780 deaths.
“Brazil has to go back to work. The population has to go back to work, ”said Bolsonaro, who appeared before the microphones without a mask, accompanied by other senior officials who did have his face partially covered.
“The collateral effects of the pandemic cannot be more than those of the virus itself,” Bolsonaro insisted.
Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro meet a festive period ordered by the municipal authorities that began on Friday and will last until this Sunday, in order to restrict the activities of the population to face the pandemic.
Brazil is, after the United States, the second country with the highest accumulated number of covid-19 cases, with 12.6 million infected, and of deceased, 313,866, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bolsonaro said that the orders of the authorities of the states and municipalities that seek to ask the population to stay at home “They extrapolate a state of siege”, a special measure that can only be authorized by the legislature.
“Staying at home we are not going to solve that problem”, stressed Bolsonaro, a head of state who at the beginning of the pandemic downplayed it and came to describe the covid-19 as a “gripita”.
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