The far-right Brazilian president called on his people to fight "with their heads held high" against the coronavirus, while his country is one of the most affected in the world by the pandemic.
Jair Bolsonaro committed another slip up on this occasion.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro again downplayed the Covid-19 pandemic on Tuesday, which has killed more than 162,000 people in the country, letting go that Brazil must stop "being a country of queers."
"Today, there is only for the pandemic, we must put an end to that. I regret the deaths, I regret them. We are all going to die one day, everyone here is going to die. nothing to run away from that, to run away from reality. We must stop being a country of queers. We must fight with our heads held high, fight ", launched the far-right president during a speech on tourism at the Planalto Palace, seat of the federal government.
"You were on the ground during this pandemic, which was oversized," he also said.
The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed more than 162,000 lives in Brazil and infected some 5.6 million people in Brazil, an underestimated figure according to experts.
"Another victory for Jair Bolsonaro"
Jair Bolsonaro had previously hailed as a "victory" the suspension in Brazil of phase 3 clinical trials of a vaccine against Covid, CoronaVac from Chinese laboratory Sinovac.
"Death, disability, abnormalities ... that's it, the vaccine that Doria wanted to force all the inhabitants of Sao Paulo to receive", launched Tuesday the president of the extreme right on Facebook, in reference to the governor of the state from Sao Paulo, his political opponent Joao Doria.
"Another victory for Jair Bolsonaro," wrote the head of state on Facebook, in response to a user who asked him if the government would agree to acquire or locally produce the vaccine in question if its effectiveness was proven.