{"id":120251,"date":"2021-04-07T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=120251"},"modified":"2021-04-07T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:54:48","slug":"genocidal-brazil-leader-bolsonaro-still-refuses-to-call-national-lockdown-despite-covid-nuke-bomb-killing-4k-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/genocidal-brazil-leader-bolsonaro-still-refuses-to-call-national-lockdown-despite-covid-nuke-bomb-killing-4k-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Genocidal\u2019 Brazil leader Bolsonaro still REFUSES to call national lockdown despite Covid 'nuke bomb' killing 4K a day"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESIDENT Jair Bolsonaro is still refusing to place Brazil under national lockdown despite the country being branded a Covid 'nuke bomb'.<\/p>\n

Daily deaths have surged to the 4,000 point and hospitals are now at breaking point with people dropping dead as they await treatment amid the rise of super-mutant strains which "threaten" the global fight against the virus.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udda0 Read our\u00a0coronavirus live blog\u00a0for the latest news & updates<\/strong>…<\/p>\n


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Dr Miguel Nicolelis, a former regional co-ordinator of the country's pandemic response team, described Brazil's response to the crisis as a "complete calamity".<\/p>\n

"It's the largest human tragedy in Brazilian history,"\u00a0he told the BBC. "We may get to 500,000 deaths by July 1, that's the latest estimate.<\/p>\n

"But the University of Washington released another estimate suggesting if the rate of transmission goes up by about 10 per cent, we could get to 600,000 deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a nuclear reactor that has set off a chain reaction and is out of control. It\u2019s a biological Fukushima."<\/p>\n

His comment was a reference to the shocking explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan sparked by a tsunami in 2011.<\/p>\n

He also warned of the increased threat of worrying new strains of the virus as the death toll hit 337,000 – now second only to the US on 555,000.<\/p>\n

Dr Nicolelis said: "Brazil is now not only epicentre of the pandemic worldwide it's a threat to entire effort\u00a0of international community to control the pandemic on the planet.<\/p>\n

"We are brewing new variants every week and some of them may more lethal.. eventually make it to the entire world."<\/p>\n


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Reports say 92 variants have now been detected in the country, including the P.1, or Brazil variant, which has become a big cause for concern as it is thought to be much more contagious.<\/p>\n

"They called me homophobic, racist, fascist, a torturer and now… what is it now? Now I am… someone who kills a lot of people? Genocidal. Now, I'm genocidal," he said to supporters outside the Presidential Palace in Brasilia on Tuesday evening, according to video posted on YouTube.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Health Ministry reported another 4,195 COVID-19 deaths in the previous 24 hours, well above the country\u2019s prior single-day record.<\/p>\n

Brazil has set daily death records every week since late February, as a more contagious local variant and meager social distancing efforts fuel an uncontrolled outbreak.<\/p>\n

With mass vaccinations curtailing the U.S. outbreak, it has quickly become the epicenter of the pandemic, contributing about one in four deaths per day globally, according to new Reuters analysis.<\/p>\n

Hospitals are reported to be at breaking point – with witnesses likening them to scenes from a medieval plague outbreak as oxygen supplies run low.<\/p>\n

In most states, patients with Covid-19 are occupying more than 90 per cent of intensive care unit beds.<\/p>\n

Epidemiologist Ethel Maciel said the country was in a "dreadful situation".<\/p>\n

He told the AFP news agency: "At the rate we're vaccinating… the only way to slow the extremely fast spread of the virus is an effective lockdown for at least 20 days."<\/p>\n

However, despite the increased threat of the virus, President Jair Bolsonaro has refused to impose restrictions.<\/p>\n

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He has\u00a0pushed back against mask-wearing and lockdowns\u00a0that public health experts consider the best way to combat transmission.<\/p>\n

And last month he told crowds in Rio de Janeiro to "stop whining" about the virus.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters, Mr Bolsonaro said: "Enough fussing and whining. How much longer will the crying go on?"<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, he criticised quarantine measures and even suggested – without any evidence – that they were linked to obesity and depression.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But despite the ominous COVID data, government figures have insisted Brazil will soon be "back to normal".<\/p>\n

Yesterday, economy minister Paulo Guedes said: "We think that probably two, three months from now Brazil could be back to business."<\/p>\n

Last week, we reported how\u00a0an overflowing cemetery in Brazil\u00a0was digging up 1,000 skeletons to make room for more Covid victims.<\/p>\n

In ghoulish pics, gravediggers have been snapped deep within the graves of Sao Paulo's Vila New Cachoeirinha cemetery.<\/p>\n

Donned in protective white hazmat suits, they've been busy tearing open the tombs of people buried years ago, and bagging decomposed remains for removal to another location.<\/p>\n