BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that some states went too far in their social isolation measures to combat coronavirus, and that the steps must be taken as soon as possible to bring the economy out of intensive care.
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with the Supreme Court chief justice, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes and business leaders, Bolsonaro said he fully supports Guedes’ call to scrap salary increases for some public sector workers two years.
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu, Editing by Franklin Paul; Writing by Jamie McGeever)
