Jair Bolsonaro defends Donald Trump and his management of the pandemic

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has asserted that the press avoids labeling United States President Joe Biden as “genocidal”, despite the deaths caused by the coronavirus in that country.

Ally of former Republican President Donald Trump, Bolsonaro made a comment Thursday evening on the coronavirus in his weekly show on social networks.

“The death toll in the Trump era, who was accused of genocide, has been equated with the Joe Biden era, and the press does not label Biden as genocidal,” the Brazilian president said.

In early October, the United States exceeded 700,000 deaths from Covid 19. Biden, of the Democratic Party, then insisted on strongly recommending that Americans be vaccinated.

“We want fewer people to die, in 2021 more people have died than in 2020 and President Trump has been labeled genocidal by the North American channel CNN. Now (2021) more people have died along with Joe Biden and nobody calls him genocidal. Neither of them died. genocidal “, observed the head of the White House.

Bolsonaro backed Trump’s re-election in 2020, inviting him to travel to Brazil to participate in a summit of far-right leaders.

Last year Trump sent over a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in Brazil where this drug was distributed for an “early treatment” against the coronavirus, despite the reluctance of the scientific community in the country and much of the world.

During his presentation Thursday evening, he again defended said treatment despite the fact that the World Health Organization recommends not to prescribe chloroquine to patients infected with Covid-19.

More than 600,000 dead in Brazil

Brazil reached 600,077 Covid deaths on Friday, according to the media group that has counted since the start of the pandemic reported in the afternoon.

Cases confirmed since the registration of the first infections in February 2020 have already reached 21,533,752.

During this time, nearly 70% of the population received the first dose of the vaccine.

Brazil had reached 500,000 dead on June 19; However, with the advance of vaccination against the disease, since the last week of June, the moving average of cases and deaths has been declining.

The South American giant is the second country with the highest number of deaths from Covid-19, after the United States, and the third in number of cases, behind the United States and India.

As of Thursday evening, the most populous country in Latin America had recorded 451 deaths in 24 hours, and the cumulative figure since the start of the pandemic reached 599,865. This Friday, it was confirmed that the country exceeded the 600,000 mark. dead.

The figures show a 53% drop from two weeks ago, although the virus is still lurking in the country, especially with the delta variant.

After the second wave of infections, with a record number of deaths that lasted between March and June and caused hospital collapse across much of the country, Brazil has gone from decline to stability of its numbers.

Meanwhile, 148.8 million Brazilians have already received at least the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, which is equivalent to 69.7% of the population.

So far, 97.2 million have received the two doses, with which 45.5% have completed their vaccination according to data reported by the health secretariats released this Friday by the newspaper. State of São Paulo.

Source: ANSA

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