Thousands of people took to the streets across Brazil to protest the government’s handling of the pandemic, demanding the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro, more vaccines and more financial aid. The demonstrations, organized by trade unions and various leftist groups, took place in at least 13 provincial capitals, including Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Salvador.
A parliamentary committee is currently investigating the handling of the crisis by President Bolsonaro, who since the beginning of the pandemic has downplayed the severity of the virus and refused to impose restrictions.
Meanwhile, health authorities have registered over 108,000 new cases of Covid-19, after the southern state of Rio Grande recounted its data over the past 500 days, reporting 64,000 new infections in a single solution. . The previous figure at the national level had reported about 50 thousand new infections.