In Rio de Janeiro
As of Wednesday, February 26, Jair Bolsonaro's calendar page is blank. He ends a short vacation in a military fort in a seaside resort in the Southeast. Like every year, he fled Carnival, celebrated in joy throughout Brazil but which he hates. And yet, the president does not know it yet but this day changed the course of his mandate. On February 26, the first case of Covid-19 in Brazil was officially diagnosed in Sao Paulo, on a 61-year-old man returning from Italy. This anonymous patient will recover. On the other hand, the populist president is unlikely to emerge unscathed from the most serious health, economic and social crisis in the recent history of the largest country in Latin America.
Until then, everything was going pretty well for Jair Bolsonaro. The coronavirus from China may have spread all over the planet, seen from Brasilia, it seemed far away. The economy, without being very flourishing, was picking up some colors
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