07/07/2020 - 15:56
- Clarín.com
- World
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that the positive of coronavirus from the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro shows that "everyone" is "vulnerable" and "exposed" to contagion.
It was the WHO director of health emergencies, Mike Ryan, who stressed that Bolsonaro's positive shows that "nobody is special, we are all potentially exposed and we are equally vulnerable."
"We wish him a fast and complete recovery," added the Irish expert, who recalled that he is not the first world political leader affected by the pandemic and stressed that Brazil, the second country most affected by it, "faces difficult times, although its figures have stabilized in recent days. "
For his part, the WHO Director-General, the Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed that he hopes Bolsonaro develops mild symptoms and can return to his executive work soon, but stressed that "it is important to understand the severity of this virus and realize that no country is immune. "
Tedros added that the situation is worrying not only in Brazil, "but throughout Latin America, where cases and deaths continue to rise , as well as in North America," although he expressly cited Canada as an exception within this severity, at the least incidence of the pandemic in that country.
Bolsonaro downplayed the severity of COVID-19 on numerous occasions, which he publicly described as "little flu," and was also reluctant to wear a mask.
His country is the second most affected on the planet by the pandemic, both in number of infections (more than 1.6 million) and deaths (64,000), although the daily figures seem to have stabilized and according to the WHO, the national health system, despite under pressure, it has not collapsed.
With information from EFE