Brazil expands use of chloroquine: Gustavo Ribeiro comments on Al Jazeera

By TBR Newsroom

Brazil’s Health Ministry has followed President Jair Bolsonaro’s wishes and published a new protocol for the use of antimalarial drug chloroquine — now greenlit for mild as well as severe cases. However, the department’s own document acknowledges that “there is no robust evidence allowing the recommendation of specific pharmacological treatments for Covid-19.”