Amid the health collapse that multiplies coronavirus deaths, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro again targeted isolation measures seeking to curb the spread of COVID-19 and called for “back to work.” The return of the right to work is essential,” he said from his presidential residence in Brasilia, where he is shaken by a major political crisis following a change of cabinet and the joint resignation of the three heads of the Armed Forces.
“I tell the governors, review these policies and allow the people to work. Public employees have our salary at the end of the month, but there are 40 million who depend on leaving,” Bolsonaro added, in a repeat of his speech since the health crisis began. His new Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, the fourth since the beginning of the pandemic, had recommended only a while earlier to maintain social distance during Easter.
“With the restrictions, governors and mayors are making a state of siege, something I can’t do without congressional authorization,” Bolsonaro complained. The country where manaus and Rio de Janeiro mutations of the virus developed bought more than 510 million vaccines – Sputnik V, Covax Facility, Pfizer and Janssen – until December.
