Brazil could leave WHO, president Bolsonaro accusing him of "bias"

After the United States, Brazil? Latin American President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday threatened to withdraw his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), along with his American counterpart Donald Trump, to protest his "ideological bias" "

“I tell you here, the United States left WHO, we are thinking about it, in the future […]. Either WHO works without ideological bias, or we are leaving it too. We don't need outsiders to give their feelings about health here, ”he told reporters in Brasilia.

Throughout the coronavirus crisis, Jair Bolsonaro imitated Donald Trump by minimizing the severity of the disease, urging him to maintain normal activity, and praising the effectiveness of a treatment that divides scientists, hydroxychloroquine.

"Chloroquine is back"

Speaking on the latter subject, the Brazilian president said he was not surprised that a study in the medical journal The Lancet, which concluded that the treatment was useless, was strongly questioned and then withdrawn. This withdrawal prompted the WHO to resume clinical trials on the molecule. "Trump took the money away from them and they went back on everything," said Jair Bolsonaro. Before adding, visibly satisfied: "Chloroquine is back".

In its latest report published on Friday evening, the Brazilian Ministry of Health stopped giving the total number of deaths, which reached 35,026, to reveal only that of the last 24 hours (1,005).

By Thursday, that total had become the third highest in the world, behind the United States and the United Kingdom, but ahead of Italy. Brazil has identified more than 645,000 cases, a number that many experts consider largely undervalued due to the lack of sufficient tests.

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