translated from Spanish: Bolsonaro disassociates himself from the increase in coronavirus deaths: “I am the Messiah, but I do not work miracles”

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has refused to take responsibility for the increase in coronavirus deaths and, on the day the South American country has overtaken China in death numbers, has argued that he cannot perform “miracles” and that he had already warned that there would be victims by this pandemic. The death toll in Brazil on Tuesday surpassed the threshold of 5,000, after confirming in 24 hours the record number of 474 deaths. With this data on the table, the South American giant has already surpassed the death toll in China, the origin of the virus, which has reported 4,634.” So what? I am sorry. What do you want me to do?” replied Bolsonaro to journalists who demanded an assessment of these figures. “I am the Messiah, but I do not work miracles,” he said, alluding to the middle name – brazilian president’s name is Jair Messias Bolsonaro-.He then wanted to regret the situation that many families are going through, “but that’s the way life is.” In this regard, he has predicted that 70 percent of the population will become infected and noted that “no one ever denied that they would have died” from the virus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Bolsonaro has repeatedly downplayed the virus and questioned the measures taken in several states, in particular the restriction of movements. His stance pitted him directly against the minister of health, who was replaced last weekThe new minister, Nelson Teich, has proposed to reduce the social gap, even though he has also acknowledged that there is a “worsening of the situation,” according to G1.

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