Brazil Recorded Record Deaths, President “Declared War” on Governor

Follow AFPBrazil, the country most severely affected by Covid-19 in Latin America, is expected to quickly become a “new global hot spot for the disease.”

In the past 24 hours, they had an additional 881 deaths from illness, a record in one day, bringing the number of deaths to 12,400. The previous record in Brazil was 751 cases, registered on 8/5.

Brazil became the sixth largest country to have deaths in the world, behind the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Spain.

Brazil is available 177,589 cases Covid-19, an increase of 9,258 cases compared to the previous day.

However, experts warn that the number of tests in Brazil remains low compared to the scale of the epidemic, which means that the number of cases in this Latin American country could be much higher.

“Brazil only evaluates people who have been admitted to the hospital,” said health expert Domingo Alves AFP. He is a co-author of a study published last week, suggesting that the scale of translation in Brazil could be 15 times greater than the official figure.

“It is difficult to know what is really happening based on the existing data. Brazil does not have a real policy to control the disease, “said Mr. Alves.

Data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health shows that the nation of 211 million people has processed nearly 500,000 tests in official laboratories. This figure is considered much lower than other major epidemic regions in the world.

President “declared war” on governors

Follow DW, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made a direct call to governors to oppose his order to open doors to gyms and hairdressing shops to file lawsuits against the measure.

Bolsonaro decided to reopen some businesses because he believed that the economic losses would be more serious than the damage to the disease of the Brazilian people.

Previously, the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that state leaders and local officials ordered the closure of companies, businesses and companies to prevent the outbreak, a measure that Bolsonaro was upset about and protesting on the street.

However, as president, Bolsonaro also has the right to use power to issue orders to place the gyms, the beauty shops mentioned above in the “essential” group, and allow the reopening.

“Governors who disagree with my order can file a lawsuit,” Bolsonaro challenged, warning that he would sue but did not obey his orders.

At least 10 governors said they would not obey orders.

“Mr. Bolsonaro is heading towards the ‘edge’ and wants to take us all with him,” accused Rio de Janeiro Governor Wilson Witzel.

Since the outbreak, Bolsonaro has been controversial several times because the spokesman purported to minimize the disease, calling it a “mild flu” and calling on states and cities to reopen quickly to save the economy. at risk of “collapse”.

A predictive model from the University of Washington estimated that Brazil could have 88,000 deaths in August due to Covid-19. Reuters.

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