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Brazil President Accused Of Murder Over COVID Deaths
By Giulia Campos on October 20 2021 10:10 AM
Brazil’s congressional panel released a draft report on Tuesday recommending homicide charges against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the death of over 600,000 citizens.
The nearly 1,200-page report accused Bolsonaro and 69 other government officials of being responsible for the “deliberate and conscious” delay in releasing COVID vaccines which contributed to the “stratospheric” coronavirus death toll that devastated Latin America’s largest economy.
“The mathematics of the situation was clear: the more infections, the more deaths. Without vaccines mortality would have been stratospheric, as it turned out to be,” the report said. “We will never forget.”
Brazil is one of the countries worst affected by COVID, ranking second with the highest coronavirus mortality rate, according to Johns Hopkins data.
The draft report, which was pre-released to the New York Times, accuses Brazil’s far-right leader of forging documents, “crimes against humanity,” as well as other crimes.
More:
https://www.ibtimes.com.au/brazil-president-accused-murder-over-covid-deaths-1761137