Jair Bolsonaro

If there is another increase in deforestation in July, Brazil is headed for annual deforestation of more than 15,000 square kilometers, or an area larger than Connecticut.

The president's office said those provisions in the law, approved by Congress, were "against the public interest" and "unconstitutional."

Brazilians had the second-highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world behind the United States: nearly 1.6 million, including some 65,000 deaths.

Bolsonaro is reportedly feeling better after starting treatment, which includes taking the drugs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.

Bolsonaro has minimized the gravity of the novel coronavirus, dismissing it "a little flu," and has accused state governments of exaggerating the number of infections and deaths to undermine him.

"The cumulative data ... does not reflect the moment the country is in," Bolsonaro said on Twitter.

Brazilian Jews are cooking some 400 meals each week which are distributed in Recife’s streets and poorest neighborhoods, called favelas.

With more than 35,000 lives lost, the pandemic has killed more people in Brazil than anywhere outside of the United States and the United Kingdom.

The attacks on journalists have intensified as Bolsonaro's political situation has deteriorated under criticism of mishandling the coronavirus crisis.

The White House on Monday brought forward by two days restrictions on travel to the United States from Brazil that were announced after the Brazil became the world's No. 2 coronavirus hotspot.