'So what?': Bolsonaro shrugs off Brazil's rising coronavirus death toll
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from on (#52TEE)
Outrage at president's response to news that more than 5,000 people have lost their lives
More than 5,000 Brazilians have lost their lives to the coronavirus - even more people than in China, if its official statistics are to be believed.
But on Tuesday night Brazil's president shrugged off the news. "So what?" Jair Bolsonaro told reporters when asked about the record 474 deaths that day. "I'm sorry. What do you want me to do?"
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