Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, has said that nearly everyone will probably end up catching the new coronavirus, and he has urged Brazilians to "face up to it" and saying there was nothing to fear.
Mr Bolsonaro’s latest bid to downplay the pandemic came as Brazil closed in on the milestone of 100,000 people killed by the virus, the second-highest mortality rate in the world, after the United States.
The 65 year-old President, who is just coming off three weeks in self-isolation after himself testing positive for the virus, pointed to his own case as an example.
During a visit to the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, he told journalists: "I'm in the high-risk group, I knew I was going to catch it some day, as I think unfortunately