Explained: Why Brazil’s Bolsonaro is being investigated over COVID response
05 May 2021 |
3:02 pm
Delayed vaccines, oxygen shortages, ineffective COVID treatments. In Brazil, a commission is investigating what role President Jair Bolsonaro's government played in one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world.
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