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The Associated Press reports:
Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has staked out the most deliberately dismissive position of any major world leader, calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary. Bolsonaro says his response to the disease matches that of Trump, labeling the virus as “a little flu” and saying state governors’ aggressive measures to halt the disease were crimes.
On Thursday, Bolsonaro told reporters in the capital, Brasilia, that he feels Brazilians’ natural immunity will protect the nation. “The Brazilian needs to be studied. He doesn’t catch anything. You see a guy jumping into sewage, diving in, right? Nothing happens to him. I think a lot of people were already infected in Brazil, weeks or months ago, and they already have the antibodies that help it not proliferate,” Bolsonaro said.
RT @Mision_Verdad: Bolsonaro says that Brazilians should not worry about the coronavirus because it “is not contagious.” today, in Brazil there are 3,027 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 77 Brazilians have died from this pandemic. pic.twitter.com/1l1oNiZzO4
— Nicolás Maduro (@maduro_en) March 28, 2020
As coronavirus cases mount in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has staked out the most deliberately dismissive position of any major world leader, calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary.https://t.co/YPovUia6La
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 28, 2020
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, is the only world leader widely believed not only to have Covid-19 and to have lied about it, but to have knowingly spread it to untold numbers of his followers https://t.co/IuwQceSobq
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) March 28, 2020