Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has used an online post to criticize coronavirus fiscal measures and news coverage of the pandemic, in his initial remarks almost a full day after Brazil passed 100,000 coronavirus deaths.
In a series of tweets Sunday, Bolsonaro pointed to a story published by the UK’s Daily Mail criticizing lockdown measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus.
It concludes that lockdown killed two people for every three with Covid in the UK. In Brazil, even without official data, the figures would not be very different, “tweeted Bolsonaro.
The Daily Mail article suggests “it is estimated that as many as 16,000 people died because they did not receive medical care between March 23 and May 1.” The story claims – without evidence – that these people did not go to the hospital because they were afraid of catching the virus.
Bolsonaro went on to criticize Brazil’s largest TV station without specifically naming it, saying the TV station “only spreads panic among the population and despises the disagreement among the powers” and “despises the use of hydroxychloroquine, pollutes it” , discouraged. “
Brazil has passed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Saturday the country has reported more than 3 million cases, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Public Health.
Bolsonaro’s only mention of the 100,000 coronavirus deaths reached in his country on Saturday was to criticize the TV station’s coverage on the subject.
“In a cowardly and disrespectful manner to the 100,000 dead Brazilians, this TV celebrated that date yesterday, as a true final of the World Cup, and the President of the Republic blamed all the dead,” he wrote.
He added that “false information kills even more than the virus itself. Time and science will show us that Covid’s political use of this TV has brought us deaths that could have been prevented.”
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