BRAZIL
Freedom of Infection
Hundreds of people – including the president – took to the streets of the capital, Brasilia, Sunday demanding the army intervene to reopen the country, Al Jazeera reported.
The protest follows others over the weekend in which demonstrators in major cities demanded state governors resign over lockdown measures to contain the pandemic, the broadcaster reported separately.
President Jair Bolsonaro set off a furor last week by firing his health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who had been promoting isolation measures to curb the outbreak. Meanwhile, polls show Mandetta is far more popular with the public than the president.
Bolsonaro has been a fierce critic of the stay-at-home policies, arguing that they would harm the economy.
The country of 211 million has the highest number of confirmed cases in Latin America with more than 37,000 infected and more than 2,400 deaths.
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