The Brazilian Prosecutor General’s Office opens an investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro for quackery in the use of hydroxychloroquine to combat the coronavirus.
“Tomorrow’s protocol (today) in the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) denounces Bolsonaro for administrative impropriety and quackery: deceiving the people by promising a cure through medicine without scientific efficacy and with serious side effects”Federal Deputy Rogério Correia of the Workers’ Party declared on Monday on Twitter.
According to the aforementioned deputy, the Prosecutor’s Office also sued the far-right president for swelling his friends’ coffers and wasting public money.
By underestimating the threat of the new coronavirus, causing COVID-19, Bolsonaro again questioned confinement as a way to contain the pandemic in the country most affected by the deadly virus in Latin America.
Despite the warnings of doctors against the consumption of hydroxychloroquine, the dignitary, hours after revealing that had tested positive for COVID-19, posted a video on Facebook taking the aforementioned drug as a treatment against the pandemic, the same recommended by the US President Donald Trump.
Several reports show that the mortality rate increased much more than expected in Brazil, due to the use of the controversial drug, recommended by Bolsonaro.
In fact, they sue Bolsonaro, nicknamed “the Brazilian Trump”, for minimizing the severity of the epidemic from the beginning, calling it a “flu” or comparing it to the deaths caused by traffic accidents in the country.
In addition, criticism of the president’s management regarding the infectious disease has led the Brazilian Armed Forces to meet and analyze scenarios in the event of the president’s eventual removal.
According to information from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, in the last 24 hours, the country has registered 1,665 deaths from COVID-19, so that, in total, the pandemic has left 1,867,841 positive cases in that nation and more than 72,000 deaths.
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