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April 16, 2021

Brazilian Senate Probes Bolsonaro's Pandemic Response as Daily Death Toll Remains World's Worst
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Brazil's Senate has launched an investigation into far-right President
Jair Bolsonaro's disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, as
Brazil's average daily death toll topped 3,000, the worst in the world.
On Thursday, the president of the Doctors Without Borders said the
humanitarian catastrophe is likely to intensify in the weeks ahead.

Dr. Christos Christou: "Each week, there is a grim new record of deaths
and infections. The hospitals are overflowing. And yet there is still no
coordinated, centralized response. Health workers are physically,
mentally and emotionally exhausted."



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