was slow to respond to the pandemic and has continued to play down the virus to this day and mathias abbott is the author of the report he just joins me now from rio de janeiro hey let's pick up where your story left off with president bowles now are. he still denying that covert 19 is a major problem despite the mounting death toll in the country he definitely he's a big problem for fighting the coronavirus for example last sunday when the death toll past the number of $10000.00 on the same day was no went out for a jet ski ride on a nearby lake and that shows his lack of compassion towards this crisis and his crisis management is also poor his federal federal administration reacted too late in order to provide long ventilators to the affected regions this is also the case for manassas and other states but he is getting a lot of pushback right materials from state governors some of whom have been openly defying his orders yeah this is this is an ongoing struggle between them for example yesterday both ordered to reopen barbershops and fitness centers but immediately immediately after that