Brazil registered a daily record 13,944 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, as President Jair Bolsonaro urged business leaders to push for lifting lockdown orders in financial center Sao Paulo to help the economy.
Men carry boxes to be installed for the coffins at the Sao Pedro municipal cemetery, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 14, 2020.REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
In a videoconference, he told a gathering of business leaders to “play tough” with Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria, who has issued social distancing orders and said he will not comply with Bolsonaro’s latest decree to reopen gyms and beauty salons. Doria has urged residents to stay indoors and ordered all non-essential services closed through May 31. But Bolsonaro has sought to weaken those orders by declaring more services as “essential” and free to open, including gyms and hair salons.Brazil’s government slashed its economic growth forecast this week, forecasting a 4.7% contraction in 2020, the worst annual drop since at least 1900.
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