Brazil’s Health Minister Nelson Teich handed in his resignation on Friday, his office said, after less than a month on the job as the country becomes a world hotspot for coronavirus.
Teich, who disagreed with right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, will hold a news conference later Friday.
Brazil has now surpassed Germany and France and had more than 200,000 confirmed cases of the virus as of Thursday.
The resignation comes less than a month after Teich’s predecessor, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, was dismissed by Bolsonaro after the two sparred over the country’s coronavirus response.
Bolsonaro has downplayed the threat of the coronavirus as a “little flu”, arguing Brazil’s economy must continue to run normally.
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