Bolsonaro ignored repeated warnings about Covid, ex-health minister says

Luiz Henrique Mandetta tells senate inquiry president was aware his anti-scientific response risked death on an enormous scale'

Jair Bolsonaro ignored repeated warnings that his anti-scientific response to Covid-19 was leading Brazil down an extremely perilous path" and putting tens of thousands of lives at risk, the country's former health minister has claimed.

Giving oral evidence to a senate inquiry into Brazil's coronavirus calamity on Tuesday, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who led the health ministry at the start of the pandemic, said he believed the Brazilian president's conduct had helped generate an unnecessarily large tragedy.