With a death toll that has already topped 6,300, the giant South American country is facing as grim a scenario as Italy or the United States. said Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday when a journalist asked him about the fact that more than 5,000 Brazilians had died of the coronavirus. AdvertisementWith a death toll that has already topped 6,300, the giant South American country is facing as grim a scenario as Italy or the United States. The head of the doctors' union in Sao Paulo, Eder Gatti, called on television for "a more serious attitude from the president of the republic." "Ask Joao Doria or (Bruno) Covas [the mayor of Sao Paulo] why people continue to die even when they have taken such restrictive measures," said the president.

Source: Daily Nation May 02, 2020 01:30 UTC