Bolsonaro’s controversy with the WHO; the president will sanction emergency aid today

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 31 Mar 2020 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

According to President Jair Bolsonaro during a conversation with journalists on March 31, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, said that informal workers must work. However, Bolsonaro ended up omitting the passage in which Tedros explains that it is necessary for governments to guarantee assistance to people who were left without income during isolation, recommended by the WHO itself during the quarantine. Asked by the press about the position of Jair Bolsonaro, Tedros Adhanom posted on his Twitter that “people without a regular source of income or without any financial reserve deserve social policies that guarantee dignity and allow them to comply with public health measures for COVID-19 recommended by national health authorities and WHO”.

President Jair Bolsonaro announced that he will sanction today, March 31, emergency aid in the amount of R$ 600 for informal workers. In addition to issuing a decree to regulate the measure, Bolsonaro is expected to issue a Provisional Measure (MP) to address the source of funds to implement the payment. In Congress, legislators are trying to approve the expansion of the social protection network.

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