Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently said that he is planning a 30-person barbecue on Saturday despite the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and the different guidelines in place to stop the spread.
"I'm going to have a barbecue on Saturday here at home. Let's have a chat, maybe a peladinha," Bolsonaro said at the Alvorada Palace, according to Time24 News in Brazil."There must be 30 . There won't be a drink. There will be a kitty."
The remarks made by Bolsonaro come as Brazil continues to see a rise in coronavirus cases. According to a tracker provided by Johns Hopkins University, there are currently over 136,000 confirmed cases in Brazil, as well as at least 9,265 deaths. The World Health Organization has continued to urge that people across the globe should practice social distancing and isolation during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil walks back to the Palacio do Planalto after meeting with the Brazilian Supreme Court of Justice President Jose Antonio Dias Toffoli and businessmenin the Supreme Court amidst on the coronavirus pandemic at the Três poderes square on May 07, 2020 in Brasilia.In addition to the increasing number of cases in Brazil, Bolsonaro's spokesperson, Gen.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Bolsonaro has continued to downplay its severity in Brazil and just last week, he said that he believed"the worst had passed," for the country in relation to the pandemic, during a press conference outside the Alvorada Palace. Across Brazil, state governors have imposed their own quarantine and lockdown measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, but Bolsonaro has continued to disagree with these decisions and suggested that the economic impacts caused by the lockdowns will have a worse impact than the virus itself.
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