Jair Bolsonaro has said Brazil needs to ‘stop being a country of sissies’ over the Covid pandemic. Speaking at an event where few attendees wore a mask, the Brazilian president claimed he was sorry about coronavirus-related deaths, but “all of us are going to die one day”. Taking a swipe at the US president-elect, Joe Biden, who is apparently threatening Brazil with sanctions if fires in the Amazon rainforest are not dealt with, Bolsonaro said that “diplomacy is not enough […] there must be gunpowder”

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