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Bolsonaro celebrates the Paulista Soccer Championship on the day that Brazil exceeds 100,000 deaths from covid-19

2020-08-09T22:49:22.093Z


The president shares a message from the Presidency in which he regrets "deaths from covid, as well as other diseases" and celebrates "one of the lowest death rates per million among the great nations"


A protest in Rio de Janeiro for the handling of the pandemic by the Government of Jair Bolsonaro, this Saturday.MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP

On Saturday that Brazil exceeded 100,000 deaths caused by covid-19 and three million infections by the new coronavirus, President Jair Bolsonaro chose to celebrate Palmeiras' victory in the Paulista Soccer Championship on social media. The Special Secretariat for Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic (Secom) published a series of messages on Twitter - shared by the president on his networks - in which he celebrates some data on the pandemic, giving the expression "see the middle glass full ”tints of disdain. The other Powers of the Republic (Supreme Federal Court, Senate and Chamber of Deputies) have decreed, in turn, official mourning in memory of the victims. "There are many figures that give us hope", can be read in the account of Secom. The organization limited itself to saying that it regretted "each one of the victims of covid-19 and all other diseases."

In commemorative tone, Secom celebrated the “almost three million lives saved or in recovery” and “one of the lowest mortality rates per million among the great nations”, in addition to being “one of the most infected countries recovering, always with a recovery rate above 95% ”. This Sunday, Bolsonaro finally took a position on the victims through his Twitter account. The president lamented the deaths, but at the same time condemned the coverage of the media, especially TV Globo , the country's main television network. "In a cowardly way and without respect for the 100,000 Brazilians who have died, that TV yesterday celebrated the date as a true final of the Soccer World Cup, blaming the President of the Republic for all the deaths," the president complained. who was celebrating the triumph of his team, Palmeiras, in the regional tournament of São Paulo.

- In a covarious and disrespectful years 100 thousand dead Brazilians, essa TV celebrates this date not on the day, as a true final of the World Cup, blaming the President of the Republic for all the deaths.

- Jair M. Bolsonaro (@jairbolsonaro) August 9, 2020

In another series of tweets on Saturday, Secom stated with the same optimistic tone that Brazil ranks 11th among the countries in which the disease kills the most per million inhabitants. With 469 deaths per million people, Brazil is behind San Marino Belgium, the United Kingdom, Andorra, Peru, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Chile and the United States, in that order. What Secom omits is that behind Brazil there are more than 200 nations with better indices. But, for the Bolsonaro government, the country has "one of the lowest mortality rates per million among the great nations."

In addition, the Secom does not mention the fact that Brazil is the second country with the highest number of confirmed deaths, a total of 100,477, according to the report from the Ministry of Health this Saturday. It is only surpassed by the United States, where more than 165,000 people have already died from covid-19.

More than R $ 1 TRILHÃO to save lives and guarantee or undertake the dignity of thousands of Brazilians. This is the Government of Brazil, which regrets every life lost, but continues to continue to be two countries with fewer deaths per thousand inhabitants among the great nations. pic.twitter.com/DdrM9h5DjL

- SecomVc (@secomvc) August 8, 2020

The Government also highlighted that it is allocating more than a trillion reais [around 184,000 million dollars] "to save lives and guarantee employment and dignity for thousands of Brazilians." This amount corresponds to the sum of the budgets of different areas, but does not represent the amount actually dedicated to combat the coronavirus. An example of this is the Ministry of Health itself: according to the Brazilian Court of Accounts, until July the portfolio only spent 29% of the funds destined to fight the pandemic.

Between Friday and Saturday, 905 new deaths and 49,970 infections were registered, according to the Ministry of Health. The portfolio also considers that 2,094,293 people are cured and another 817,642 are under medical supervision. “For a government, much more than pretty words, the best way to show that it matters is by working. We are all on the same side of the trench in this war that has been imposed on everyone. And the Government of Brazil has been working without ceasing from the beginning ”, also affirmed Secom.

The alarming figures for Brazil, the second country with the highest number of confirmed infections, are explained by the irresponsible management of the Bolsonaro Government, which from the beginning has ignored science and boycotted the quarantines decreed by mayors and governors of the States. In addition, the Executive has resigned to centralize the management of the health crisis. In May, Bolsonaro appointed his third Minister of Health since the start of the pandemic, General Eduardo Pazuello. Hundreds of technicians were replaced by the military and chloroquine became part of the treatment against covid-19 in public hospitals. The medication so far has not been proven effective in treating covid-19, according to leading studies and the World Health Organization (WHO), but Bolsonaro has always promoted its use. In recent weeks he has finally admitted that the effectiveness of chloroquine has not been proven, but argues at the same time that "they have not" proven its ineffectiveness either. " The president insists that the drug has saved his life when, in July, he was ill with covid-19.

Source: elparis

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