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Bolsonaro criticises lockdown measures

Bloomberg Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticised lockdown measures by governors even as the nation turned into a global epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. The Health Ministry on May 10 reported 162,699 total cases of Covid-19 and 11,123 deaths, among the world’s highest. “The head of household has to stay at home going hungry with their family,” Bolsonaro said in a ...

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WHO scolds Belarus for military parade

Bloomberg The rapid spread of coronavirus in Belarus made it unjustifiable to organise the kind of mass gatherings that were held over the weekend, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. A military parade commemorating the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II created an additional risk of infection which may “eventually lead to losses of human lives that ...

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Hong Kong uses coronavirus rules to stop protests

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s central district returned to relative normalcy this weekend, with crowds of revelers taking advantage of eased social distancing rules even as fresh pro-democracy protests flared across the city. When it came to the activists, they aggressively enforced a coronavirus-related restriction on gatherings of more than eight people, with local media reporting the arrest and pepper-spraying of protesters. ...

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