With two months of deflation and growth in the number of unemployed, Brazil under Bolsonaro`s government is heading for an economic scenario even more serious than the current one

The Broad National Consumer Price Index (IPCA), considered the official indicator of inflation in Brazil, fell 0.38% in May. This is the second consecutive decline in the index, which recorded a 0.31% decrease in April, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

Still, according to IBGE, the services sector dropped 11.7% in April, compared to March. The results of the Monthly Service Survey, released today (17) by the IBGE, show that, in these three months of retraction, the sector accumulates a loss of 18.7%. Unemployment grew more than 10% in May alone.

According to José Paulo Kupfer, the "deflation of the IPCA in May deepens the deflation of April. Consumption of goods and, above all, services, down. Unemployment, loss of income, fear of contagion, and the 'precautionary savings', affect the activity, and keeps inflation below the floor."

Many economists are point out that with two consecutive months of deflation, the basic interest rate defined by the Brazilian Central Bank increases in real terms for the State's creditors. In this way, it ends up promoting a rent which, while benefiting a wealthy minority of the population, accelerates the country's economic recession further.

As Brazil moves quickly to scare the number of 50,000 killed by COVID-19, Brazilian companies continue to fail and breaking down and unemployment still rising. In this dramatic scenario, the Bolsonaro government meeting that went public shows only authoritarian delusions and bravado. The coronavirus crisis was not even mentioned in this meeting, which wasn't made any proposals to take Brazil out of the crisis.

Besides that, according to research conducted by the Page Group, more than 10 million Brazilians have already had reduced working hours and wages or have their contract suspended during the coronavirus pandemic. This made the country a leader in wage reduction in Latin America. In Brazil, 11.8% indicated the reduction in salary as a measure to face the crisis, while in Latin America it is adopted by 7.1%. The reduction in working hours, in turn, represents 7.8% of the responses against 4.2% in the region.

The scenario in which Brazil is heading should be marked by a deep drop in revenue, as a result of the slowdown in economic activity, high unemployment, and serious political crisis.

Carlos Wizard resigns from the Ministry of Health after defending “recount” of deaths by COVID-19; decision came after the billionaire's companies began to suffer a boycott of Brazilians

Billionaire Carlos Wizard will no longer take over the Secretariat at the Brazilian Ministry of Health. According to the G1 website, "in recent weeks, Wizard had been participating in meetings on the coronavirus pandemic. He was not nominated in the Federal Official Gazette and, therefore, also did not receive public money".

Carlos Wizard not only announced the recount of the deaths but also stated that the number presented by the Ministry of Health was unrealistic. After that, the ministry took the information from the official website. This caused a huge reaction in the country, including a strong campaign to boycott all brands linked to the billionaire Wizard, who, after losing money, decided to leave do government with even been officially hired.

After all, Wizard also says if any of his statements could have offended victims.

The development of this case indicates that it is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to support Bolsonaro's proto-fascist necropolitics. In this case, it became evident that for Wizard, as well as for other entrepreneurs, before Bolsonaro's support comes their business, and a boycott is everything a businessman doesn't want.

Carlos Wizard, the new secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Health defends the recounts of the number of deaths caused by the new coronavirus; without any scientific evidence, he said the numbers were "fanciful or manipulated"

Carlos Wizard, upon assuming the position of the new secretary of Science, Technology and Strategic Inputs of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, said that he will work to review the numbers of the coronavirus in the country.

Wizard, who is known for having founded a network of English schools in Brazil, has no experience in the health sector (the current interim Minister of Health in Brazil also has no experience in the area, he is a general in the Brazilian army ).

Many fear that Wizard intends to establish a kind of Ministry of Truth in Brazil, dedicated only to "retelling" the more than 34 thousand deaths by COVID-19. It seems like Wizard wants Covid-19 deaths to simply and magically disappear. In addition, billionaire Wizard also advocates the use of chloroquine to prevent COVID-19.

Last night the Ministry of Health of Brazil has stopped releasing a total of confirmed Covid-19 cases & deaths and the government site is "under maintenance" since then. The president Jair Bolsonaro said that the government is adapting itself "for better precision". 

This was viewed as an act of censorship. According to the John Hopkins website, Brazil has 614,941 cases and 34,021 deaths. 

While Brazil reaches half a million cases of COVID-19, with almost thirty thousand deaths, the country remains without a health minister and the president Bolsonaro rides a horse amid a demonstration as if nothing had happened

According to a survey carried out by the independent health data platform Functional Health Techo, the next July 6th will be the peak of contamination by COVID-19 in Brazil. On that date, the country will reach 1.78 million people with the coronavirus. This number, however, does not account for the cases of people recovered or who died.

According to the figures released by the state's health departments, Brazil currently has 514,992 cases of the new coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2), with 29,341 deaths, thus passing France in the number of deaths.

In the midst of this unprecedented health crisis, Brazil remains without a Minister of Health, a portfolio that is currently occupied temporarily by a military man who is not a doctor and has no experience in the area of public health. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, on the other hand, rode out on horseback to participate in a demonstration by supporters in Brasília.

Without a mask, Bolsonaro also greeted people crowded over the protective fence in the act in defense of his government. Thousands of people, many without protection (mask), gathered in front of the government headquarters.