Bolsonaro mocks Covid-19 cases in Rio: "I think the Federal Police kills viruses"
"In Rio de Janeiro, the number of deaths due to the coronavirus dropped dramatically after the Federal Police went there. I think the Federal Police kills viruses," Jair Bolsonaro quipped.
247 Jair Bolsonaro mocked the Federal Police operation targeting the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Wilson Witzel. The operation aimed to investigate the expenditure of R$ 1 billion on the construction of field hospitals during the pandemic in Rio.
"In Rio de Janeiro, the number of deaths due to coronavirus dropped dramatically after the Federal Police went there. I think the Federal Police kills viruses. The Federal Police will continue to act. It was an excellent job in Rio de Janeiro," Bolsonaro said this Thursday (28) in a weekly internet broadcast.
The municipality of Rio reported 1.177 fewer deaths on Wednesday (27) than reported by the State Health Department. According to the city hall's Rio Covid-19 panel, the city had accumulated 1.801 deaths due to coronavirus until the previous day (26), but in the last state bulletin, the capital appeared with 2.978 deaths on the same date. It turns out that the drop in the number of deaths occurred because the city hall, led by Marcelo Crivella (PRB), started counting deaths based on burials carried out daily, and no longer based on data reported by registry offices.
In the live broadcast, he cited the speech he gave at the Alvorada Palace, where he stated that "we can no longer tolerate the actions of certain individuals, taking certain actions in an almost personal way." "That's it, damn it," Bolsonaro said at the time, criticizing the Federal Police operation that was authorized by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
The corporation executed search and seizure warrants in the investigation into fake news. In total, eight Bolsonaro-supporting congressmen In addition to those, others are in the sights of the Supreme Federal Court. entrepreneurs Luciano Hang, owner of the Havan chain of stores, and Edgard Corona, founder of Smart Fit. The corporation is also investigating... former federal deputy Roberto Jefferson and the blogger Allan dos Santos, from the website Terça-Livre.