Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday declared gyms and hair salons as essential services that can stay open through the new
Coronavirus outbreak, easing measures to control the disease despite new cases and deaths surging in the country.
Brazil has now registered a total of 168,331 confirmed cases of the virus and is closing in on the number of cases recorded in
Germany and
France, where the outbreak has been slowing.
To date,
Brazil has confirmed 11,519 deaths due to the disease.