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The surveys suggest Bolsonaro’s attacks on governors and even his own health minister may have backfired. Bolsonaro continues to rail against state and municipal shutdowns, calling them economically disastrous responses to an overhyped risk. Yesterday, the country’s coronavirus deaths jumped to 359 from 299, while confirmed cases jumped to 9,056.
In a Thursday evening radio interview, Bolsonaro said that Mandetta has at times “gone overboard” and lacked “humility.”Bolsonaro has shocked many around the world by persistently playing down the gravity of the pandemic, calling Covid-19 “a little cold” exaggerated by the media and his opponents — even after his political role model US President Donald Trump walked back his own skepticism about the outbreak. Bolsonaro’s stance has isolated him politically in Brazil.
The XP/Ipespe poll showed a jump of 6 percentage points in less than a month among those rating Bolsonaro’s government “bad” or “awful,” to 42 per cent — a record for the survey.
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