Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired his Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta on Thursday. Dr. Mandetta wanted the Brazilian government to shut down its economy and enforce a total confinement of the population.

Jair Bolsonaro refuses to destroy his economy in confronting the virus.

Brazil today has 1,924 coronavirus deaths in a country of 207 million.

New York state has over 16,000 deaths in a state of 20 million.

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New York as over 8 times the deaths of tropical Brazil with a population 10 times its size.

So far Jair Bolsonaro’s bold policies to save business and people’s livelihoods has paid off.

El Mundo reported (translated):