Brazil's Bolsonaro: virus killing economy

By By Carolina Mandl and Leonardo Benassatto
Updated July 19 2020 - 9:06am, first published 9:03am
Brazil's economy is expected to contract 6.4 per cent this year, hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brazil's economy is expected to contract 6.4 per cent this year, hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says lockdown measures used to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus "kill" and have "suffocated" the country's economy.

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