Rio has the second-largest incidence of the virus of any Brazilian state, with 3,410 cases and 224 deaths. A poll earlier this month showed three-quarters of Brazilians support the governors’ quarantine measures regardless of the economic cost. The governor of the Amazonian state of Para, Helder Barbalho, said in a separate video posted to his Twitter account on Tuesday that he also tested positive for the virus. The virus “doesn’t choose age, it doesn’t choose social class. The Supreme Court has stepped into the fray, with a justice this month issuing an injunction prohibiting the federal government from overruling state and municipal isolation measures.

Source: The Standard April 15, 2020 04:30 UTC