Hello, welcome to the response coronavirus.

Welcome to the response coronavirus.

Smart phone recordings from across the globe describing how COVID-19 and the lockdown is affecting you.

I'm Winifred Robinson. As we record this, 6,000 people have died of the virus in Brazil and it's getting worse.

There are nearly 90,000 confirmed cases and a lack of testing means the real figure will be much higher. But the president, Jayir Bolsonaro, wants

the lockdown to end. Louisa, from Florianopolis in the south, says it's a dangerous situation.

Here in Brazil, we are dealing with the health crisis and a political crisis at the same time.

So as you may know, we have a president that doesn't believe in

quarantine, doesn't believe in isolation, he even encourages people to go out, go

to work, says that this is a minor flu that can't stop the

economy.

And just last week he fired our health minister, which was the man in charge with this pandemic here.

So this kind of behavior gave autonomy to governors and mayors around the country to do something about it, act on it

because they couldn't wait for the president anymore.

My state was one of the first to declare quarantine.

They shut down schools, universities, malls, local markets, churches,

which was a problem for us because as a very religious country, people still

want to go to church and the pastors didn't want to close but eventually they

made them close but now after a month you see that people are starting going back to normal. They reopen the

business, reopen malls, reopen restaurants, pretty much everything.

And that's something that worries me a lot because we're still in very early stages of the pandemic here. We didn't even see its effects.

So I think in about two weeks we're going to see what's really going on.

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