Mixed Messages in Bolsonaro's Brazil.
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
While Europe seals its borders, Latin America, which has far fewer confirmed Coronavirus cases, has started to do the same to stop the disease spreading. But not all leaders are taking the threats seriously says Katy Watson.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:06.5 | Our correspondence has spread throughout the world |
| 0:09.2 | and for once they're facing the same challenges |
| 0:11.5 | as those of us here. |
| 0:13.5 | Because of the coronavirus shutters are coming down in Beirut and our man is about to leave. |
| 0:19.8 | But not all national leaders have yet to get a grip. |
| 0:22.4 | We hear from Brazil. |
| 0:24.6 | Even so, life goes on, and our correspondent in the Czech Republic finds himself chasing a memory |
| 0:30.7 | of the Prague Spring 50 years ago. while it's a memory of the lady which preoccupies |
| 0:36.2 | our man in Myanmar. |
| 0:39.0 | First, to Latin America, which has fewer confirmed cases but has started to seal its borders. |
| 0:45.0 | Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela, countries across the region are imposing drastic measures. |
| 0:51.0 | But Katie Watson in Brazil says that not everyone in power is taking |
| 0:56.1 | it seriously. |
| 0:57.1 | There's a popular saying in Brazil that the year doesn't start until after carnival. |
| 1:03.2 | And this year that adage couldn't have been more true. |
| 1:07.0 | Just days after the street parties wound down, |
| 1:09.8 | Brazil got its first case of coronavirus, a man who'd travelled to Italy. He's now made a full recovery, |
| 1:17.0 | but plenty more people have since fallen ill. |
| 1:20.0 | People aren't running for the toilet paper yet, but schools and public spaces are closing. Home |
| 1:26.0 | Office, or Home Officy in Portuguese, is now a buzzword and people talk about nothing else. |
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