The Brazilian Senate should soon open an investigation to assess
"possible omissions"
on the part of the government of President Jair Bolsonaro in its controversial management of the pandemic, which on Thursday April 8 set a new death record.
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A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Thursday ordered the Senate to set up a commission of inquiry in this regard, following the request made by 32 of the 81 Brazilian senators.
The President of the Senate Rodrigo Pachco, who opposed it until now, finally accepted this request during a press conference a few minutes after the announcement made by this Supreme Court judge.
The investigation should focus in particular on
"the actions and omissions of the federal government
(...)
, in particular in the face of the worsening health crisis in the state of Amazonas, after the lack of oxygen for hospitalized patients »
, Clarified this magistrate, Luís Roberto Barroso.
In January, dozens of people died in Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, due to lack of oxygen in hospitals.
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Brazil recorded 4,249 new deaths from the Covid-19 epidemic on Thursday in the past 24 hours, for a total of 345,025 deaths, the second heaviest death toll after the United States.
This is the second day in a row that this daily toll exceeds 4,000 deaths, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health.
The number of cases of contamination has reached 13.2 million since the start of the epidemic in February 2020.