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With 10,627 deaths and 155,939 confirmed cases, Brazil is the Latin American country most affected by the virus, according to official figures, which also make it the sixth nation with the highest number of deaths from the pandemic.
On the new balance, known this Saturday, Jair Bolsonaro has not spoken. Instead, the Brazilian president he was seen riding a jet ski around Lake Paranoá, that bathes the banks of the most affluent neighborhoods and the official residence in the capital Brasilia, according to photos and videos disclosed by the news site Metrópoles and replicated by large newspapers such as Folha de S. Paulo and Estadao.
Novo video obtained hair Metropoles shows @jairbolsonaro walking from jet ski not Paranoá Lake and approaching a boat on a fazia churrasco group on the afternoon of Saturday (05/09). As images were registered at the margens do Palácio da Alvorada # Metropoles pic.twitter.com/QYQ6efIHbh
– Metropoles (from 🏠) (@Metropoles) May 9, 2020
Consulted by the AFP agency, The Presidency stated by email that it “will not comment” on the number of deaths from COVID-19.
Meanwhile, scientists project that the actual number of cases in Brazil could be more than 15 times higher, given the country’s inability to carry out generalized tests.
The concern becomes more evident if we take into account 2 recent studies – carried out by Brazilian researchers, in alliance with major universities in the United States (Johns Hopkins) and the United Kingdom (Oxford) – which indicate that Brazil will be the new global epicenter of the pandemic, cites the newspaper El País (Spain).
And is that, In the last 24 hours, the government of the neighboring country registered 10,611 new cases and 730 deaths, the second highest daily death toll, after the record recorded last Friday (751).
In this regard, the Brazilian Congress and the Federal Supreme Court declared an official mourning period of 3 days.
The presidents of the houses of deputies and senators asked the population to follow the recommendations of the health authorities to reduce the rate of infections while The country is preparing for “a safe and definitive return to normality.”
“The way out for this crisis is in the union, dialogue and coordinated action – protected by science – between the powers, the institutions,” said the president of the Supreme Court, Dias Toffoli, in a press release.
Sao Paulo, a state in the Brazilian southeast with almost 46 million inhabitants and the country’s economic engine, concentrates more than 3,600 deaths and more than 44,400 cases.
Resisting the pressures of Bolsonaro, who opposes isolation measures because of their impact on the economy, Governor Joao Doria announced this week that he is extending the partial quarantine imposed since March until May 31, which includes the suspension of classes and the closure of non-essential stores to prevent the movement of people.
The neighboring Rio de Janeiro, where more than 16 million people live, follows with 1,653 deaths and 16,929 infections. Governor Wilson Witzel will also extend partial confinement measures next Monday until the end of May, as confirmed by his advice to AFP on Saturday.
Less populated states like Ceará, Pernambuco (northeast) and Amazonas (north) are already around a thousand dead each and they are seeing their ability to admit patients to intensive care units exceeded.
As the contagion curve accelerates and the saturation of health services becomes imminent, Specialists recommend tightening containment measures to contain the spread of the virus.
But such recommendations collide head-on with the president’s speech and attitudes, who in the midst of the crisis dismissed his former Minister of Health due to differences in the handling of the crisis and has personally participated in street protests against the quarantine measures.
When the country had registered 5,000 deaths from the virus, Bolsonaro responded, consulted by a journalist:
“And that? Sorry. What do you want me to do? I am Messiah (middle name), but I do not perform miracles. “
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