Even tragedy does not stop Jair Bolsonaro: he says he is …

The president of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro expressed satisfaction with protests over the weekend against social isolation and restrictive measures to fight covid-19. The latter were dictated by the governors of this country to fight against the coronavirus pandemic which caused the collapse of the health system and given the toll of infections and deaths that the coronavirus causes every day due to the pandemic of coronavirus.

Indeed, this Wednesday in the city of São Paulo, the state most affected by the pandemic, the first victim was recorded by lack of access in an intensive care bed after contracting Covid-19, following the collapse of the health system which affected all regions. The authorities are analyzing the strengthening of the measures decreed on Monday with a curfew.

Against his own minister

“Logically, it made me happy, all of Brazil loved it, it has been shown that the people are alive. The democratic feeling is in force, we want our freedom and that everyone respects the Constitution”Bolsonaro told local media in a video posted Tuesday by a Bolsonarist news channel on YouTube.

The agent even contradicted his appointed Minister of Health, cardiologist Marcelo Queiroga, who defended distancing to combat the explosion of the pandemic in a coordinated manner.

Since the start of the pandemic, the far-right politician has refused to support the scientific recommendation to apply quarantines and wear masks, a fact for which the opposition has called for his impeachment for “sanitary genocide”.

Bolsonaro backed his supporters’ criticism of the closure of businesses in Rio Grande do Sul, a state bordering Misiones and Corrientes, which has since collapsed. There are 17 days with a record number of deaths from covid-19.

Situation in Brazil

Brazil is accumulating 284,775 dead. It is the second country in the world with the most deaths from the coronavirus after the United States and the current epicenter of the pandemic.

On Wednesday, he broke a record for infections, 90,303 in one day, with 2,648 deaths. Specialists believe that from May, the collapse of the hospital would be reduced with the advance of vaccination and quarantines underway.

“The situation in Brazil is a warning that keeping this virus under control requires continued attention from public health authorities and leaders to protect people and health systems from the devastating impact of this virus, “the director warned at a conference. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) press Wednesday, Carissa Etienne.