Brazil Health Minister Dismissed By Bolsonaro Hopes President Will Reconsider COVID Danger
Umer Jamshaid Published July 08, 2020 | 04:10 AM
RIO DE JANEIRO (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 08th July, 2020) Former Brazilian Health Minister Henrique Mandetta said in an interview with Globonews that he hoped President Jair Bolsonaro would reconsider his attitude toward the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after he himself got infected with COVID-19.
Bolsonaro said Tuesday he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Mandetta said he hoped the president would recover and that he would "think about people who have had no access to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and a personal doctor from the first day."
The ex-minister also doubted the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, a drug that Bolsonaro had begun to take to treat COVID-19. Mandetta said the medicine was "politicized".
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