Brazil judge orders Bolsonaro to wear a mask due to COVID-19

A Brazilian judge ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a mask in public after the right-wing populist attended political rallies without one in the middle of the world's second-worst coronavirus outbreak. Federal Judge Renato Borelli ruled in a decision made public on Tuesday that Bolsonaro was subject to a fine of 2,000 reais ($387) a day if he continued to disobey a local ordinance in the federal district meant to slow the pandemic. Brazil's solicitor general, which argues the government's legal interests, said in a statement that it was studying ways to reverse the decision.

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