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Brazil’s Covid CPI: Former health minister Teich confirms Bolsonaro’s pressure on chloroquine

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil's former Health Minister Nelson Teich confirmed Wednesday that he received pressure from the president, Jair Bolsonaro, to recommend chloroquine against Covid-19 in public health and that this caused his resignation from the government.

Teich, who was only 30 days at the Ministry of Health, between April and May last year, appeared before a Senate committee investigating possible omissions of the Government in combating a pandemic that has already left in the country more than 411,000 deaths.

"It is a public matter. There was a desire by the president to do that," Teich . . .

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