Marcelo Queiroga was appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro to assume the position of Minister of Health of Brazil.Câmara Municipal de João Pessoa
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has changed the Minister of Health on Monday at the worst moment of the pandemic, after a week in which he has added 12,000 deaths.
He is the third replacement, and the fourth minister, at the head of the portfolio since the pandemic began a year ago.
A doctor, Marcelo Queiroga, replaces General Eduardo Pazuello, who has never upset the president, but who he has wanted to get rid of in view of the accelerated accumulation of deaths after the sharp increase in infections.
Hospitals in much of the country are saturated or on edge.
Queiroga was until now the president of the Brazilian Association of Cardiology.
Unlike what happens in the rest of the world, the pandemic worsens in Brazil with a sharp increase in infections and deaths.
With the 1,057 counted in the last 24 hours, there are almost 280,000 Brazilians killed by coronavirus.
And this Monday more than 36,000 new cases have been added, bringing the total to over 11.5 million.
The Brazilian variant of the covid - more contagious and more attacking to young people than the original strain - together with President Bolsonaro's denialist discourse are causing havoc.
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