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A demonstrator waves a banner with an image of President Jair Bolsonaro, during a caravan backing Bolsonaro’s anti-coronavirus-lockdown stance, marking May Day, or International Workers' Day, in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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Darick Caverni and his wife Michelle watch as cemetery workers in protective clothing lower the coffin that contain the remains of his 88-year-old aunt Wilma Caverni, who died of the new coronavirus, at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Brazil is nearing 2 million cases of COVID-19 and 75,000 deaths. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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Wearing masks, Brazil's Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, right, applies alcohol gel on hands of President Jair Bolsonaro's hands during a press conference on the new coronavirus, at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 18, 2019. For most people COVID-19 causes mild or moderate symptoms. For others, especially the elderly and people with existing health problems, it can cause many other serious illnesses, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

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In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018 file photo, President-elect Jair Bolsonaro cries during the playing of the national anthem at a ceremony officially confirming his election at the Supreme Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil. On Friday, March 27, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a photo circulating online incorrectly captioned as Italy’s president with tears streaming down his face while saying the country has run out of space to bury the dead who have succumbed to coronavirus. The mis-captioned photo shows Bolsonaro crying during a Dec. 17, 2019, appearance while discussing the stabbing attack he was a victim of during his 2018 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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Wearing masks, Brazil's Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, right, applies alcohol gel on hands of President Jair Bolsonaro's hands during a press conference on the new coronavirus, at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 18, 2019. For most people COVID-19 causes mild or moderate symptoms. For others, especially the elderly and people with existing health problems, it can cause many other serious illnesses, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

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Customers buy masks at a medical supply store, to wear as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Brazil's government confirmed on Wednesday that a Brazilian man who traveled to Italy this month has Latin America's first confirmed case of the contagious new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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Airport employees wear masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 as they work at the Sao Paulo International Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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