Pandemic politics costing lives in Brazil
12 May 2020; AFP: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro keeps saying coronavirus fears are overblown. Other officials at the federal, state and local levels insist the danger is all too real.
Brazil is torn by a deep political divide over how to respond to the pandemic, and it is taking a heavy human toll.
On Saturday, even as the death toll in Brazil crossed the threshold of 10,000, Bolsonaro continued pressing to get the country back to work.
"The army of unemployed keeps growing," he tweeted.
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