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Brazilian government accused of ‘sabotaging’ health measures as Covid death toll hits 4,000 a day
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro

HEALTH experts accused the Brazilian government of sabotaging public health measures after the country’s daily Covid-19 death toll surpassed 4,000 on Tuesday.

“The anti-lockdown narrative of President Jair Bolsonaro has won,” Institute for Health Policy Studies executive director Miguel Lago said, as Brazil became the third country globally, after the United States and Peru, to record the grim milestone.

“Mayors and governors are politically prohibited from beefing up social distancing policies because they know supporters of the president, including business leaders, will sabotage it,” he said.

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