With more than 310,000 detected cases of Covid-19, Brazil is now the third country most affected by the coronavirus in the world. Since the start of the pandemic, 20,000 people have died from Covid-19, and could rise to 193,000 according to a recent study by the University of Washington, Le Monde reported on Monday.
This worrying acceleration of contamination can be explained for opponents of Jair Bolsonaro by the strategy to safeguard the economy of the Brazilian president. The former soldier has always refused to confine the Brazilians to stop the spread of the disease. "Do people die?" Oh yes! Sorry! I am sorry! But there will be more people who will die, much more, if the economy continues to be destroyed by these measures! "He declared the Brazilian president on May 14. A strategy that some governors of Brazilian states refuse. Those of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, by imposing local containment measures. Tensions are also playing out in the medical field: in two months, two health ministers left their posts because they disagreed with the president. The latest opposition concerns the authorization to use chloroquine on mild patients, while the efficacy of this drug to fight against the coronavirus is not consensus in the scientific community.