Bolsonaro On Emergency Aid, State of Public Calamity Extended

President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed yesterday that emergency aid will not continue in 2021. The president said that the country went into debt to contain the pandemic and "reached the limit" in relation to emergency aid.

• Yesterday, Caixa Econômica Federal paid the last instalment of emergency aid to 3.2 million people, ending the payment schedule.

On a Sao Paulo beach, Bolsonaro greeted dozens of people, held children and recorded videos with his supporters. Continuing to downplay the virus with his actions and his words, the president said, "ask God for everything to return to normal" and made an appeal to some governors who, in his words, "insist on closing everything".

• This comes as Brazil register another 57,000+ cases and register over a thousand deaths in the past 24 hours.

*Separately, Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski has decided to extend the state of public calamity triggered by the Covid-19 outbreak, CNN Brasil reported without disclosing how it obtained the information.