‘Out Bolsonaro!’: More protests in Brazil over COVID crisis

President Jair Bolsonaro is under pressure to account for his govt’s coronavirus policies and corruption allegations.

Protesters have taken to the streets across Brazil once more to demand far-right President Jair Bolsonaro step down over his government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as well as recent corruption allegations. Demonstrators marched in Rio de Janeiro and several other cities nationwide on Saturday in the latest display of public anger and frustration to hit the South American nation in recent weeks. “They’re protesting about many things: the government’s downplaying of the pandemic, the president’s spurning of health safety measures, the slow rollout of vaccines, which has picked up in the last couple of weeks,” Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiew reported from Rio.