Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures while meeting supporters as he leaves Alvorada Palace, amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brasilia
(Photo: Reuters)

Defying guidelines issued by the Brazilian health ministry, the president of Brazil visited a fast-paced industrial district in on Sunday in the capital, where he called on all but elderly Brazilians to return to work.

Next, he insisted that an anti-malaria pill of unproven efficacy would treat people who fall sick with the disease that's killed over 43,000 individuals worldwide.

"God is Brazilian," he told a throng of supporters. "The solution is perfect there."

Many world leaders were sluggish to comprehend the menace of the extremely contagious disease, along with unwilling to embrace disruptive and economically painful social distancing measures which have become the norm across a great deal of the globe.

But President Jair Bolsonaro is still the premiere holdout in eschewing the scientific opinion on the lockdown measures necessary to maintain healthcare methods from becoming bogged down.

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A Motion to Impeach the President

The management of the crisis has resulted in consternation across the country's political spectrum as congressional leaders, the top and editorial boards of the Supreme Court have beseeched Brazilians to ignore the president. A motion to impeach Mr. Bolsonaro is gaining support, with Brazilians banging pots from the windows of their homes nightly to repudiate the president.

Since the novel coronavirus was recognized in Brazil in late February, the disease has spread rapidly across the nation, with big clusters in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the country's most populated states. As of Wednesday, there were 6,836 confirmed cases in Brazil, in which testing is restricted, and also 240 recorded deaths.

In a televised address Tuesday evening, Mr. Bolsonaro spoke about the disease in graver terms, calling it "the biggest challenge of our generation."

Though the president particularly didn't endorse stringent quarantine measures and misleadingly paraphrased remarks by the top of the World Health Organization to state that casual employees must carry on and toil.

For a lot of the nation, the words of his have been drowned out by protesters banging pans and chanting "Down with Bolsonaro!"

President Attacks Other Government Officials 

In mid-March, governors began urging Brazilians to remain inside unless they operate in critical sectors and known as in a few business categories to turn off. Since that time, commerce, transit, and flights happen to be sharply reduced, throttling Latin America's biggest economy, which has yet to recuperate from the brutal recession in 2014.

As the patchwork of lockdown measures hardened, Mr. Bolsonaro lashed out at governors for falling right into a state of "hysteria" and asserted, with no evidence, they had been inflating coronavirus figures for political gain. He attacked journalists, accusing them of drumming up panic in an attempt to weaken the government of his. He's named the virus a "measly cold."

Over the weekend, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook deleted posts by Mr. Bolsonaro where he questioned social distancing measures, deeming the posts in violation of guidelines prohibiting content material that endangers public health.