Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro rages and rages through the corona crisis like a berserk. Meanwhile, the number of deaths in the country continues to rise significantly.
- Brazil has seen a sharp increase in people with corona .
- President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the virus.
- A video now causes horror.
Updated on Saturday, 30.05.2020, 10.50 pm: In Brazil , the death toll is by the novel coronavirus has risen to nearly 28,000. The South American country thus overtook Spain and came fifth in the number of corona deaths worldwide. The virus registered 1124 further deaths within 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health in Brasília.
With almost 27,000 cases, a record number of newly registered infections was also achieved. According to the ministry, at least 465,000 people have been infected so far in Brazil . This puts the country in second place in international comparison after the USA in the number of registered cases .
Experts believe that the actual number of corona infections in Brazil is up to 15 times higher than the official statistics indicate, since the virus has not yet been tested across the board.
Corona crisis in Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro continues to cause horror
Update from Thursday, May 28th, 2020, 11:45 am: In Brazil , the horror of the current situation is increasing. The number of corona deaths has now risen to more than 25,000. The Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday (May 27th) that in the past 24 hours the number had increased by 1086 people to 25,598. This is the fifth time the number of corona deaths has passed the 1,000 mark since the corona crisis in the Latin American country intensified a week ago.
Corona in Brazil: low test rates and record infection rates
Overall, in the 210 million inhabitants country authorities claims to 411,821 people with the novel coronavirus infected. After the United States, Brazil is the second most affected country by the pandemic in the world in terms of absolute infection rates. However, due to the low test rate , experts expect significantly higher infection numbers .
The most affected Brazilian state of São Paulo extended the exit restrictions on Wednesday until June 15. At the same time, Governor Joao Doria announced that “some activities” could be allowed again from June 1st.
And Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ? He continues to criticize the regional corona measures and explains that the economic consequences of the pandemic threaten to do more damage than the virus itself. “The so-called second wave is coming: recession . It will affect everyone, without exception, ”he now wrote on Facebook.
Coronavirus in Brazil's epicenter: Jair Bolsonaro's horror show
First message from Wednesday, May 27th, 2020: Horror is on the sad agenda in Brazil in view of the exploding numbers of corona infections. But as if that weren't bad enough, people in the largest country in Latin America are still being shown how their right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro is if he doesn't appear in front of television cameras or supporters.
Corona pandemic doesn't matter to Bolsonaro
This can be seen - and above all heard - in a video from a cabinet meeting in late April. By then, 3000 Brazilians had died. There are now more than 23,500. The video makes it clear how Bolsonaro and his ministers don't care about the pandemic: completely.
Because Corona is practically not an issue for the nation's leaders - and anything else is a welcome opportunity, especially for Bolsonaro himself, to say one thing after another. Expressions of force fall in rows for a good two hours. The media counted 39 curses in the video, 31 of them from the President's mouth. "It shows the vulgarity of the current government. They are like barbarians who throw the country into chaos, disregard the law and ignore the constitution, ”the opposition parties in Congress said. "It is two hours full of swear words and madness, full of ridicule and disrespect for the country," columnist Miriam Leitão wrote in the newspaper "O Globo".
Bolsonaro against anti-corona measures
Bolsonaro berates two governors as "piece of shit" and a "bunch of crap" because they oppose him through exit restrictions. The education minister wanted to jail the Supreme Court because it granted state jurisdiction over anti-corona measures . And the Minister for Women and Human Rights wanted to arrest the governors and mayors at the same time.
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- ILKHA (@IlkhaAgency) May 27, 2020The video was released on Friday by the Supreme Court in connection with Justice Minister Sergio Moro's resignation two days after that session. He accuses Bolsonaro of wanting to influence the work of the federal police. The investigates several crimes in which Bolsonaro's clan is said to be involved. In the video, the president freaks out because the authority doesn't tell him about it. "I'm not going to wait for you to fuck my family and friends."
Bolsonaro insulted journalists
Such words fit like a fist to the fact that two of the largest media companies in Brazil are no longer participating in the head of state's informal press conferences. There is insufficient protection for the security of journalists, the media group Globo and the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo" said on Monday.
The President often makes press statements in the morning in front of the Alvorada Palace in the capital city of Brasília. Bolsonaro almost regularly insults reporters or makes obscene gestures in their direction. Bolsonaro’s fans there also insult the journalists - on Monday as “Rubbish, rats, communists”, as the Vice President of the Globo Group, Paulo Tonet Camargo, wrote in a letter to the minister responsible for national security. (with afp)
by Peter Rutkoswki
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