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Medical workers wearing protective gear peer into a car checking if commuters have COVID-19 symptoms, in Guarulhos on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, March 30, 2020. President Jair Bolsonaro has stuck with his contention that concern about the new coronavirus is overblown, and accused Brazilian media of trying to stoke nationwide hysteria. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Jair Bolsonaro, ‘coronavirus denier,’ echoes Trump response for Brazil

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

A relative stands at a distance during the burial of Robson de Souza Lopes at Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. According to authorities at the Amazonas Health Secretary, the 43-year-old musician died Monday after being diagnosed with COVID-19. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Brazil lacks coronavirus tests, other equipment, report says

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters and journalists as he arrives to give a news conference on the new coronavirus at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, March 27, 2020. Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Bolsonaro is calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Facebook joins resistance to Bolsonaro virus claims

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Pastor Silas Malafaia delivers a sermon during a service transmitted on live through social networks, at the empty Assembly of God Victory in Christ Church in reason to the restrictions for agglomerations due the new coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, a conservative Catholic who married an evangelical in a service Malafaia administered, has zeroed in on the need to reopen the churches. “God is Brazilian,” he told people on Sunday, local paper O Globo reported. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Correction: Brazilian churches bristle at virus quarantines

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to journalists about the new coronavirus at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, March 27, 2020. Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Bolsonaro is calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes life-or-death coronavirus gamble

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Local volunteers carries packages with soap and detergent to be distributed in an effort to avoid the spread of the new coronavirus in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Brazil’s governors rise up against Bolsonaro’s virus stance

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

A local volunteer carries a package with soap and detergent to be distributed in an effort to stop the spread of the new coronavirus in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Virus has Brazil’s Bolsonaro facing governor ‘insurrection’

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro puts on a mask during a press conference on the new coronavirus at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 18, 2019. For most people COVID-19 causes mild or moderate symptoms. For others, especially the elderly and people with existing health problems, it can cause many other serious illnesses, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro again says coronavirus concern overblown

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro puts on a mask during a press conference on the new coronavirus at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 18, 2019. For most people COVID-19 causes mild or moderate symptoms. For others, especially the elderly and people with existing health problems, it can cause many other serious illnesses, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Jair Bolsonaro calls coronavirus overblown, blames hysteria on media

By David Biller - Associated Press

Aerial view of the Ford Motor Company’s factory in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in the greater Sao Paulo area, Brazil, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Ford is ending local production of the sort of vehicles produced at plant and announced in September it would sell it to a distributor of Hyundai and Chery vehicles. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s battered job market faces new foe: Coronavirus

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests negative for coronavirus

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks before a dinner with National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, right, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Brazilian who met Trump has virus; no plans to test Trump

By DAVID BILLER and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Performers from the Sao Clemente samba school parade on a float during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazilian politicians avoid Carnival as they become targets

By ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks, accompanied by televangelist R.R. Soares, at an International Grace of God Church event, at Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. Tens of thousands of people gathered to celebrated the 40th anniversary of the evangelical church. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Bolsonaro stresses Christian morals amid Rio’s pre-Carnival

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil homicides fall to lowest level in at least 12 years

By MARCELO DE SOUSA - Associated Press

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, and Paulo Skaf, president of the Sao Paulo's Industries Federation, FIESP, arrive for a meeting with Brazilian businessmen in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s government blasts Oscar-nominated documentary-maker

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Brazil soap star agrees to be government’s culture secretary

By ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to journalists after meeting with military commanders at the Defense Ministry in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Bolsonaro spoke about maintaining commercial ties with Iran this morning, said he would speak to his foreign minister about talks with Iran, and reiterated that Brazil opposes terrorism. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil indigenous groups accuse Bolsonaro of racist comment

By MARCELO DE SOUSA - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during an event with young Venezuelan migrants at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. According to the UNHCR there are around 180,000 Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the country, many of them arrived crossing the border in the northern state of Roraima. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil fires top culture official over Nazi-linked comments

By DIANE JEANTET and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 17, 2019 file photo, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro puts his hand over his heart as Army Commander Edson Leal Pujol salutes during the playing of the national anthem during a ceremony under the pouring rain to mark Army Day in Brasilia, Brazil. Heading into his second year as president, Bolsonaro has held firm to his combative culture-warrior policies while feuding with critics at home and abroad. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro keeps to far right, faces tough 2nd year

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press