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Brazil's governors rise up against Bolsonaro's virus stance

by Associated Press
| March 26, 2020 12:03 AM

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's governors are defying President Jair Bolsonaro over his call to reopen schools and businesses, dismissing his argument that the “cure” of widespread shutdowns to contain the spread of the new coronavirus is worse than the disease.

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