Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former president of Brazil, said that the country is going through the worst, largest massacre in its history due to the spread of the Coronavirus ( known also as COVID-19).
He asked the sitting president Jair Bolosarno to apologize for misdealing with the crisis of the pandemic.
Da Silva added that 3158 people died on Tuesday so it could be depicted as the hideous massacre in the history of Brazil.
He urged the public not to concentrate on the next presidential election but all efforts should be exerted to fight the deadly virus and vaccinate the population.
The former president stressed that the government must strive to save the country from COVID-19.
It is worth noting that Da Silva can run for the presidential election scheduled to be held in 2022 after a judge at the Supreme Court has abolished, earlier this month, a number of criminal verdicts against the former leftist president.
Lula da Silva led Brazil from 2003 through 2011.
But he was tried and imprisoned for charges of corruption in 2018 so he was then banned from running for the presidential election that year.
The new rule, which will be revised later by the Supreme Court, restores political rights to Da Silva and may open the road to him win the next election.
The incumbent president Jair Bolosarno is expected to run for that election in an attempt to win a new term.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health in Brazil announced yesterday, Thursday, that more than 100 thousand people caught COVID-19 within the last 24 hours.
The recent infections are considered the largest in the country on a daily basis.
The deadly virus has infected some 12.3 million people in Brazil since the outbreak of the disease, meanwhile 303 thousand and 463 people died from the virus.
Brazil comes second after the United States of America (USA) among the most hit countries by the virus in the world.
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