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A woman walks past by a graffiti depicting Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro adjusting his protective face mask and viruses, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2, 2020. Two days after being diagnosed with Covid-19, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made an online broadcast from the presidential residence as defiant as in previous occasions.
The interim president of Bolivia and Venezuela’s No. 2 political leader have both announced they are infected with the coronavirus. In Venezuela, socialist party chief Diosdado Cabello also reported that he is sick with Covid-19. He is considered the second-most powerful person in Venezuela after President Nicolas Maduro.
Madrid needs a win to regain a four-point lead over second-place Barcelona with three rounds to go. The Catalan club defeated Espanyol 1-0 on Wednesday.Italy bans entry from 13 nations including Brazil over virus The decree banning visitors from those countries from entering Italy was signed by the health ministry in agreement with the foreign, interior and transport ministries.
Lawmakers voted in favour of new legislation that spells out when people can be quarantined or placed in self-isolation."We are adopting this law, which will restrict some rights and freedoms, but we do it in order to protect lives," said Ioan Cupsa, a lawmaker from the ruling liberal party.The court decided that hospitalising and quarantining people without or with just mild Covid-19 symptoms violated fundamental rights and so could not be imposed by a government decree alone.
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