BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s governors pressed President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday for more federal assistance in the coronavirus battle after he blasted them as job-killers and undermined their orders with a decree keeping churches open at evangelical preachers’ demand.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro reacts throughout an evangelical march for Jesus in Brasilia, Brazil, August 10,2019 Photo taken August 10,2019 REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Bolsonaro has significantly echoed the view of U.S. President Donald Trump that tasks should be prioritized over limiting steps to slow the break out, as world health professionals recommend.
” This wave of panic and hysteria is bigger than the infection itself,” he said on a Facebook Live broadcast.
However Bolsonaro did lobby on Thursday for a subsidy for Brazil’s poorest that was gone by the lower chamber of Congress later in the day. The aid is suggested for informal workers and small business individuals and amounts to 600 reais ($11946) per month for three months. The bill still requires Senate approval.
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