For the fourth consecutive day, Brazil has recorded over 2,000 deaths from Covid-19, but the president of the South American state Jair Bolsonaro continues not to wear a mask and is fined. Authorities in Maranhao imposed a sanction on the president for causing gatherings and not wearing a mask during an event in Acailandia in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
For the Superintendencia de Vigilancia Sanitaria (Suvisa) of Maranhao, Bolsonaro did not respect “the obligation to wear a mask” as a preventive measure and “promoted gatherings with more than 100 people without health checks”, as reported by G1, specifying that the amount of the fine has not yet been defined. Yesterday, the Brazilian health authorities confirmed 76,855 new cases of Covid-19 and 2,215 deaths due to the pandemic.
Six cases of the Indian variant of the coronavirus have been confirmed for the first time in the state of Maranhao. Since the start of the health emergency, Brazil – with a population of over 210 million people – has recorded nearly 16 million cases of Covid-19 with over 446,000 deaths.
Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours, according to the bulletin of the Ministry of Health, for the fourth consecutive day Brazil has recorded over 2,000 deaths from Covid-19: well 2,215 while new infections were 76,855. The total number of victims since the beginning of the pandemic therefore rises to 446,309 and that of the infected to 15 million 970 thousand. Brazil is the second country in the world for the number of deaths after the United States and the third, after the United States and India, for coronavirus positive.