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Brazil's Bolsonaro takes risk with new minister for pandemic

by Associated Press
| April 17, 2020 4:27 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made it clear on Friday that he wants his new health minister to help protect the country's economy as the government seeks to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.

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