Brazil has set a new anti-record for the daily number of victims of Covid-19, Reuters reported. In the last 24 hours, 4249 people died.
Brazil’s health care system is suffocating under the pressure of the pandemic, and even wealthy hospitals are suffering from a shortage of critical medicines. Reduce anesthetics, intubation drugs, oxygen.
President Jair Bolsonaro believes the pandemic continues in the country because some are using it for political purposes, not to tackle the virus, but to overthrow the president. He claims that people are dying in every country and downplays the danger of hospitals running out of medicine. Bolsonaro also criticized state and local authorities for trying to restrict people’s movement.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court Judge Louise Roberto Barroso has ordered the Senate of the Brazilian parliament to set up a commission to investigate how Bolsonaro is managing the country’s pandemic crisis, AFP reported. The judge made this decision at the request of 32 of the 81 senators. Senate President Rodrigo Pasheco, who has so far opposed such a move, eventually accepted it.
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