desperate appeal from governors to Bolsonaro

The state of St.Paul, the largest in Brazil, began implementing a nighttime curfew on Monday and strengthening social isolation measures, which includes suspension of classes and the prohibition of evangelical worship, before the case explosion coronavirus and high rate occupation of hospitals.

Brazil’s National Governors Forum issued a dramatic note calling for support for the isolation decreed in several states and capitals, after supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday. took to the streets in protests against the closure and isolation measures against the coronavirus.

“We have appealed to the national government to coordinate coronavirus containment measures and other restrictive measures at airports and ports,” say the governors, who suffer from strong opposition to the measures applied in their regions by the government national.

Brazil, current global epicenter of the pandemic, recorded for 24 hours 1,127 new deaths Yes 43,812 new infections of coronavirus, with what now exceeds 278,000 victims and affects 11.5 million cases, the Ministry of Health reported last night.

St.Paul

Despite this, supporters of the president of Brazil, concentrated on Sunday in the main capitals to protest against the social isolation decreed by several governors to stop the contagion of Covid-19, which is on the rise in the country.

Doria has decreed that until March 30, it will not be possible to circulate between 8:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. He suspended classes in public schools. There will be no activities in evangelical temples and Catholic churches, despite the demands of deputies from neo-Pentecostal churches.

Beaches as well as football, basketball and other sports games have also been banned.

These measures reinforce the social isolation which it was already in effect and he was planning a curfew between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Flamengo player Gabigol was arrested early Sunday morning in an underground casino from the southern region of São Paulo and transferred to a police station, from where he was released the same day.

São Paulo has already recorded a total of 64,000 deaths and 2.2 million infected.

More than 20 public hospitals show the 100% occupancy of its intensive therapy rooms and 1,200 Covid patients are in line for admission to an intensive therapy room.

At least 40 people have died since early March while queuing to be admitted to an intensive care room. The lack of rooms also affects most private hospitals, including the two main ones, Sirio Libanés and Albert Einstein, both located in the capital of São Paulo.

Bolsonaro calls for protest

Last week, Bolsonaro proposed to his supporters they will pronounce against governors who threaten “freedom” and affect the economy with isolation decrees to which he compared “states of siege”.

In Rio de Janeiro, the demonstrators gathered next to Copacabana beach, and in Brasilia they did so in the Monumental Axis, the avenue that crosses the Congress and the Planalto Palace, seat of the Presidency.

Demonstrations also took place in Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais, and in Maceio, capital of Alagoas, where activists, carrying Brazilian flags, prevented the operation of a vaccination post seniors.

(ANSA)

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