An aerial view of the almost empty Paulista Avenue, on the city's all important financial center, on the first day of quarantine to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
March 28, 2020
Stories this photo appears in:
March 28, 2020 5:29 p.m.
Brazil's Bolsonaro makes life-or-death coronavirus gamble
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has staked out the most deliberately dismissive position of any major world leader, calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary.