President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is seen before the inauguration ceremony of a temporary field hospital, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Aguas Lindas de Goias, state of Goias Brazil, June 5, 2020. REUTERS / Adriano Machado
In an editorial running the length of newspaper Folha de S.Paulo’s front page, the Brazilian daily highlighted that just 100 days had passed since Bolsonaro described the virus now “killing a Brazilian per minute” as “a little flu.”Brazil’s Health Ministry reported late on Thursday that confirmed cases in the country had climbed past 600,000 and 1,437 deaths had been registered within 24 hours.
Asked about efforts to loosen social distancing orders in Brazil despite rising daily death rates and diagnoses, World Health Organization spokeswoman Margaret Harris said a key criteria for lifting lockdowns was slowing transmission. In comments to journalists later on Friday, Bolsonaro said Brazil will consider leaving the WHO unless it ceases to be a “partisan political organization.”U.S. President Trump, an ideological ally of Bolsonaro, said last month that the United States would end its own relationship with the WHO, accusing it of becoming a puppet of China, where the coronavirus first emerged.
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