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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signals thumbs up to his supporters during a protest against his former Minister of Justice Sergio Moro and the Supreme Court, in front of the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, May 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

In fight over Brazil leader’s virus test, crisis looms

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Cemetery workers wearing hazmat suits complete the burial of Ana Maria, a 56-year-old nursing assistant who died from the new coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Ana Maria's daughter Taina dos Santos said that the situation in the Salgado Filho public hospital where her mother worked is complicated and that some health workers have to buy their own protective gear. &quot;She gave everything to her job until the very end,&quot; said the 27-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

As virus cases surge, Brazil starts to worry its neighbors

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

People, one wearing a mask, rest and exercise along the seafront next to Barra de Tijuca beach, as Fernando Ferreira, right, speaks during an interview as he takes a walk outside amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. The retired dentist and lawyer recommended reading the Bible and Albert Camus’ The Plague, citing them as evidence pandemics have always happened to some degree, and said restrictions on commerce are “absurd.” (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazilians start defying isolation, egged on by Bolsonaro

By DAVID BILLER and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the inauguration ceremony of the newly appointed justice minister, at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (AP Photo / Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s president wants soccer to return amid pandemic

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

People out of work wait outside a government-run bank having technical problems to distribute their aid money amid the new coronavirus pandemic's affect on the economy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil leaves its many poor hanging amid coronavirus surge

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIARLEI RODRIGUES - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro leaves his presidential residence Alvorada Palace, where he spoke to the press in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, April 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Under pressure, Brazil’s Bolsonaro revokes police nomination

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Taina dos Santos (third from left) attends the burial of her mother Ana Maria, who died from the coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. Experts fear Brazil may be the next global hot spot for the coronavirus with death totals reaching 4,600. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Jair Bolsonaro hit by health, political crises in Brazil

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

A man wearing a mask sits next the coffin of his mother as he's transported by a cemetery worker in a full protection suit to her burial site at the Nossa Senhora das Gracas cemetery in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, April 27, 2020. The woman's body was previously being held in a refrigerator for confirmed and suspected victims of of COVID-19, according to the administration of the cemetery. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Bolsonaro’s latest crisis threatens Brazil’s virus response

By DAVID BILLER and MARCELO DE SOUSA - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro leaves his presidential residence Alvorada Palace, where he spoke to the press in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, April 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Supreme Court authorizes investigation of Bolsonaro

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

A cemetery worker stands before the coffin containing the remains of Edenir Rezende Bessa, who is suspected to have died of COVID-19, as relatives attend her burial, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. After visiting 3 primary care health units she was accepted in a hospital that treats new coronavirus cases, where she died on Tuesday. “People need to believe that this is serious, it kills&quot;, said her son Rodrigo Bessa who works at a hospital as nurse in the Espirito Santo state. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Brazil becoming coronavirus hot spot as testing falters

By DAVID BILLER and DIANE JEANTET AND LEO CORREA - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to supporters during a protest in front the army's headquarters during the Army day, amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, April 19, 2020. Bolsonaro came out in support of a small protest Sunday that defended military intervention, infringing his own ministry's recommendations to maintain social distancing and prompting fierce critics. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s government, states fight for pandemic supplies

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to supporters during a protest in front the army's headquarters during the Army day, amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, April 19, 2020. Bolsonaro came out in support of a small protest Sunday that defended military intervention, infringing his own ministry's recommendations to maintain social distancing and prompting fierce critics. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro seeks end to social isolation measures

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to supporters during a protest in front the army's headquarters during the Army day, amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, April 19, 2020. Bolsonaro came out in support of a small protest Sunday that defended military intervention, infringing his own ministry's recommendations to maintain social distancing and prompting fierce critics. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro appears in protest backing military

Associated Press

Brazil's outgoing Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, behind, smiles behind his replacement Nelson Teich at a swearing-in ceremony in Planalto Palace, Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro takes risk with new minister for pandemic

By DAVID BILLER and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Wearing masks, Brazil's Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, right, applies alcohol gel on hands of President Jair Bolsonaro's hands 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 fires health minister after virus dispute

By DAVID BILLER and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018 file photo, President-elect Jair Bolsonaro cries during the playing of the national anthem at a ceremony officially confirming his election at the Supreme Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil. On Friday, March 27, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a photo circulating online incorrectly captioned as Italy’s president with tears streaming down his face while saying the country has run out of space to bury the dead who have succumbed to coronavirus. The mis-captioned photo shows Bolsonaro crying during a Dec. 17, 2019, appearance while discussing the stabbing attack he was a victim of during his 2018 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil president, fires health minister in coronavirus dispute

By David Biller - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2018, file photo, Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, right, listens to Sao Paulo's Governor-elect Joao Doria, during a meeting in Brasilia, Brazil. As governor, Doria has become one of the nation’s foremost advocates of strong restrictions on daily life to contain the virus, such as closing schools and restricting commerce and public transportation. That’s put him squarely in Bolsonaro’s line of fire. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

AP Interview: Governor says Brazil has ‘Bolsonaro-virus’

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Wearing masks, Brazil's Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, right, applies alcohol gel on hands of President Jair Bolsonaro's hands 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 leader hasn’t fired coronavirus messenger … yet

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks from his home in Sao Paulo during an interview with The Associated Press via a cloud-based video conferencing service, as seen from a laptop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

AP Interview: ‘Lula’ says Bolsonaro a disaster amid pandemic

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

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