4.4 percent will fall in gross domestic product in 2020, according to the estimate of the Central Bank of Brazil.
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MEXICO CITY.
Three out of ten Brazilians disapprove of the management of President Jair Bolsonaro, who this week celebrates two years in office.
According to the pollster Ibope, 33% of citizens consider the ultra-rightist government “bad or terrible”, while in September that figure was 29%.
In this context, Brazil remains the third country most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, with 7.4 million confirmed infections.
In addition, it is second in the count of the death toll, with 190,795 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The increase in cases in the country has worsened the situation in some of the most affected states such as Rio de Janeiro.
According to local newspapers, the states of Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco report hospital saturation.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the president who took office on January 1, 2019 downplayed the health crisis.
“Obviously, we have a crisis right now, a little crisis. In my opinion, the issue of the coronavirus is much more fantasy, which is not everything that the main media propagates or propagates around the world, ”said the president, who was infected with the virus in July.
With which, the management of the pandemic fell to the state governments.
“Bolsonaro presented the Brazilian people with a false dilemma between the protection of human lives and that of the economy. He chose the second, arguing that it was the only way to go, since a good part of the population that works in the informal sector would not be able to stay at home, “said anthropologist Katerina Hatzikidi in an article Two years after Bolsonaro’s election: Brazil in a perpetual campaign, on the Open Democracy site.
In this context, the Central Bank of Brazil forecast a contraction of 4.4% in gross domestic product for the end of 2020, and a rebound of 3.8% for next year.
Meanwhile, yesterday the vice president of the country, Hamilton Mourao announced that he tested positive for coronavirus.
Currently, Bolsonaro, who is in the middle of his term, lacks a plan to administer vaccines in the country. Although the South American country will begin applications in February, the deadlines are not set yet.
“Nobody pressures me at all, that does not matter to me,” said the president when questioned about the applications of the doses.
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