Thousands of people took to the streets to protest Jair Bolsonaro

“People in the streets: let’s go out with Bolsonaro” is the slogan that mobilized thousands of people and which also featured the hashtag # 29M which was circulated on social networks.

In Rio de Janeiro alone, there were around 10,000 people protected by masks who joined in phrases such as “Fora Bolsonaro”, “Bolsonaro genocidal”, “Vacina ja” or “Fora Bolsavirus”.

There were also marches in Salvador (northeast), Brasilia or Belo Horizonte (southeast), where a protester was disguised as a skeleton with a scythe in one hand and a bottle of chloroquine, a remedy suggested by Bolsonaro despite its ineffectiveness in treating Covid.

In the anteroom, the Front Out Bolsonaro denounced that the sovereign insists on recommending the use of drugs without proven efficacy, such as chloroquine. Further, he denies the use of chin straps and maintains that he promotes the alleged early treatment against the pathogen without scientific verification.

As reported by Prensa Latina, Protesters also supported the action of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, which has been evaluating the executive branch’s work against Covid-19 for four weeks. The diary also explained that a greater acceleration of the vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus will be required.

Brazil has second highest number of Covid-19 deaths in the world, behind the United States alone, and the third highest record of confirmed cases behind the United States and India.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday demanded that the Supreme Federal Court (STF), the country’s highest court, ban quarantines and restrictions due to the coronavirus in three states., arguing that the fundamental rights of movement and work are violated.