Brazil’s health minister, Nelson Teich, said on Friday that he was stepping down less than a month after taking the job, after clashing with President Jair Bolsonaro over the president’s decision not to embrace social distancing and quarantines.

Last month, Mr. Bolsonaro fired the previous health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who had butted heads with the president over the same issues. Mr. Teich addressed a news conference on Friday but did not provide a reason for his resignation.

While governors and mayors in much of the country have urged Brazilians to stay home as much as possible, Mr. Bolsonaro has implored them to go out and work, arguing that an economic unraveling would be more damaging to the country than the virus is. This week he classified beauty salons and gyms as essential businesses that should remain open.

He has repeatedly played down the pandemic, at one point dismissing Covid-19 as “a measly cold,” and has touted an unproven drug as an effective treatment. Asked in April about Brazil’s fast-growing death toll, he said: “So what? Sorry, but what do you want me to do?”

Brazil has more than 200,000 confirmed coronavirus infections and over 14,000 deaths. Those figures, among the highest in the world and rising sharply, still grossly underrepresent the extent of the epidemic, experts say, because Brazil has limited testing capacity.

Officially, the country is recording more than 800 coronavirus deaths per day, second only to the United States.

Source: www.Nytimes.com

hmm!

What do i know.

Ezennwa:
hmm!

What do i know.

Sound Donald Trump has a more stupid cousin.

Yes na,Malaria is tougher than covid 19,just that covid spreads faster