Brazil has threatened to leave the World Health Organization over alleged bias as the South American country recorded the the second-highest number of cases of the coronavirus.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced the threat weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump cut U.S. ties with WHO.
Bolsonaro said the specialized agency of the United Nations in charge of international public health has “ideological” bias.
“I’m telling you right now, the United States left the WHO, and we’re studying that, in the future,” the far-right leader told reporters. “Either the WHO works without ideological bias, or we leave, too.”
Similar to Trump, he has downplayed COVID-19’s severity, attacked stay-at-home orders and touted unsubstantiated claims about benefits of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.
