NSTworld Brazil’s Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said on Thursday he’d been sacked by President Jair Bolsonaro, after weeks of clashes between the two over the country’s response to the Covid19 coronavirus pandemic.
Mandetta made the announcement on Twitter following a meeting with Bolsonaro at the presidential palace in the capital Brasilia.Mandetta promoted isolation as a tool to contain the spread of the virus, the threat of which Bolsonaro repeatedly claimed was overblown.
Soon after the announcement, people in several towns banged pots and pans to protest the minister’s sacking.Brazil's Presdident Jair Bolsonaro delivers a press conference at Palacio da Alvorada da presidencial residence, in Brasilia, on April 16, 2020. - Brazil's Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said Thursday he'd been sacked by President Jair Bolsonaro, after weeks of clashes between the two over the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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