Two and a half million Brazilians receive the basic income from the coronavirus on the first day of payment | Economy

Two and a half million Brazilians receive the basic income from the coronavirus on the first day of payment | Economy

A citizen passes a graffiti of President Bolsonaro. Brazilians who, overnight, have lost the meager income with which they literally lived daily due to quarantines to stop the expansion of the coronavirus, have begun to collect a basic income this Thursday. Some 2.6 million people have already received the 600 reais a month (108 euros, 118 dollars) in their bank accounts, according to the Minister for Citizenship, Onyx Lorenzoni. The government will pay that emergency aid during the next quarter to some 60 million informal workers, unemployed and micro-entrepreneurs, according to its estimates. The payment is staggered and a […]

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