Covid: Violence up after lockdown eased and job losses anticipated at vaccine manufacturing unit

First, Jair Bolsonaro described Covid as a “little flu”, then he recommended vaccination may flip folks into crocodiles. Now the president of Brazil, the place the World Well being Group says there have been greater than 660,000 Covid deaths, is the butt of a joke because the nation’s Carnival returns. On the São Paulo parade, a performer sporting a presidential sash remodeled right into a crocodile after “receiving a vaccine” on stage. Satire has historically been a function of Carnival floats, in keeping with a type of behind the stunt.