Brazilian politician's cunning plan to fight Covid: spray hand gel from planes
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro from World news | The Guardian on (#5FE03)
A local councillor has been roundly mocked for advocating aerial deployment of sanitizer as coronavirus wreaks deadly havoc
A Brazilian politician has suggested using helicopters and planes to spray his town with hand sanitizer in a desperate and futile bid to obliterate the coronavirus from above.
The mystifying proposal was floated in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul on Monday, as Brazil wrestles with the deadliest phase of its 13-month outbreak and the country's Covid death toll rose to nearly 280,000.
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