Brazil's Ex- Health Minister Attacks Bolsonaro As Covid-19 Deaths Top 100,000
Source: The Guardian
Jair Bolsonaro's former health minister has accused the Brazilian president of failing to offer any comfort to the families of the 100,000 Brazilians who have lost their lives to Covid-19. In an interview marking Brazil's latest Covid-19 milepost, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who was sacked in April after challenging the president's internationally condemned coronavirus response, expressed consternation that Brazil's leaders had failed to recognise so much pain.
"There are 100,000 Brazilian families who have yet to receive a single word of comfort or solidarity from the government," Mandetta told the newspaper O Globo. On Saturday afternoon a coalition of Brazilian news outlets announced the number of deaths had risen by 538 to 100,240, the second highest number on earth after the US.
On the eve of that milestone Bolsonaro urged his country's 210m citizens to put the unfinished tragedy behind them. "We regret all of the deaths," the far-right populist said during his weekly live broadcast.
"But let's get on with our lives, get on with our lives and try to find a way of getting away with this problem." He also insinuated that state governors were deliberately inflating their Covid-19 death tolls in order "to panic the population", but offered no proof....
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/08/brazil-ex-health-minister-attacks-bolsonaro-as-covid-19-deaths-top-100000
- President Bolsonaro, left, and Mr Mandetta have been at odds for weeks -
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*Coronavirus: Bolsonaro fires health minister over pandemic response, BBC, April 16, 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52316150
Related: 'Brazil loses second health minister in less than a month as Covid-19 deaths rise,' May 15, 2020, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/brazil-health-minister-nelson-teich-resigns
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