Sky News published this video item, entitled “Hotspots: Brazil’s pandemic and the COVID deniers in Texas” – below is their description.
In this episode of Hotspots, Sky’s foreign correspondent Stuart Ramsay travels across Brazil to see how Bolsonaro’s government is coping with the pandemic.
And in the United States, Alex Crawford meets COVID deniers in Texas, as the numbers of those killed by the virus continues to rise.
This programme contains strong language and scenes inside hospitals.
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