A new Brazilian record for daily Covid-19 deaths pushed the county's death toll past that of Italy late on Thursday, but Mr Bolsonaro continues to argue for quickly lifting state isolation orders, arguing that the economic costs outweigh public health risks.
Overall, more than 1.1 million Latin Americans have been infected. While most leaders have taken the pandemic more seriously than Mr Bolsonaro, some politicians that backed strict lockdowns in March and April are pushing to open economies backup as hunger and poverty grow. Asked about efforts to loosen social distancing orders in Brazil despite rising daily death rates and diagnoses, World Health Organization spokeswoman Margaret Harris said a key criteria for lifting lockdowns was slowing transmission.
In comments to journalists later yesterday, Mr Bolsonaro said Brazil will consider leaving the WHO unless it ceases to be a "partisan political organization."
Well done Jair Bolsonaro👏 Do it
Latin America not good...However Brazil may have peaked as has Russia....
Wannabe trump
fair play to him, may have many faults but being a political sheep is not one standing up to the bull shit around convid 1984
Take it he's the only one not wearing a mask?
Monkey see, monkey do. Same covid disaster as US also.
I see a pattern here, facist leaders who are incapable of running their countries are seeking to blame everybody else, it's not gonna work.
Brazil has a population of over 200m, yet the article fear mongers by stating it has a higher death toll than italy. A fairer comparison would be to say its death toll is far less than France, spain, Italy and the UK combined. More bullshit media covid spin
His father should have pulled out of his mother.