Joao Doria, Brazilian state government in Sao Paulo, called Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro a ‘psychopathic leader’ and criticized the president’s response to the Covid – 19 pandemic in an interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterley.
“We are in one of the most tragic moments in history when millions of people are paying a heavy price for having an unprepared and psychopathic leader in charge of a nation,” he said on CNN’s First Move.
Doria said many of the deaths due to the virus in Brazil could have been avoided if Bolsonaro “acted with the responsibility the post gives him”. He added that Bolsonaro “made incredible mistakes, the biggest one was to have a political dispute with the governors who are trying to protect the population.”
Bolsonaro has repeatedly lashed out at blockages and restrictive measures, criticizing governors and mayors for their implementation. He was also seen greeting the crowd of his supporters during the pandemic without wearing a mask, advocating for drugs such as hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus – a drug that has no proven effectiveness in fighting Covid-19 not.
The governor further said that he faced the biggest challenge of his life as governor of Brazil’s most populous state, and that he had to restructure the health care system in ‘record time’ and look for ways to deal with the economic crisis that hit the country. , to soften. during the pandemic. He spoke about the seriousness of the condition of hospitals and ICUs in Sao Paulo and said that they have already tripled the number of ICU beds and will open 12 field hospitals in the state this month.
Regarding the vaccinations, the governor said that 90% of the vaccines in Brazil are produced by the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo – linked to the Sao Paulo government – and that they would make 100 million vaccines available across the country by the end of August. . “It’s still not enough,” he said, adding that the federal government began buying vaccines in March, while the state of Sao Paulo began in April last year.
The second wave of Covid-19 breaks through Brazil, driving hospitals and ICUs in the direction of collapse and demanding record numbers of daily deaths.
While a new variant of the coronavirus is spreading across the country, many Brazilians continue to defy the restrictions on mobility, following the example of President Jair Bolsonaro, who recently said that people should “stop being sissy” and “moan” about the virus.
According to the Ministry of Health, Brazil has reported 11,998,233 Covid-19 cases and 294,042 Covid-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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