He played down the threat of Covid 19, and refused to be strict about preventing its spread. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

Now Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is being blamed for his country’s deadliest episode of the pandemic yet – with a highly transmissible variant, and warnings from doctors reporting more young people being admitted to hospitals with the virus than ever before.

Deaths from Covid have soared in Brazil, hitting a new peak in the last few days.
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