The president's negative numbers have dropped to 35% from 52% in the region.Datafolha pollster Mauro Paulino said three in five of the percentage point gain in Bolsonaro's approval came from low-income informal workers who were the target of the emergency relief payments.Brazil is suffering the world's worst coronavirus outbreak after the United States, with 3.2 million confirmed cases and 105,463 deaths.Datafolha interviewed 2,065 people August 11-12, and the poll has a margin of error of two percentage points up or down. Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil has registered nearly 2.3 million cases of the new coronavirus and more than 84,000 deaths, and the numbers continue rising rapidly. A dds details from poll, Bolsonaro tweet, pollster comment. Good morning, all. Three polls released this week show gains for President Jair Bolsonaro, putting him as a favourite to win re-election in 2022 despite his controversial handling of Brazil's raging coronavirus crisis.
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Datafolha pollster Mauro Paulino said three in five of the percentage point gain in Bolsonaro’s approval came from low-income informal workers who were the target of the emergency relief payments. The government is considering extending the payments as they expire in September. The media made fun of him calling Covid-19 a little cold. Good morning, all.” His spike in popularity comes as the government has been making emergency 600 reais monthly payments to low-paid and informal workers totaling more than 250 billion reais ($47 billion). REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo BRASILIA (Reuters) - The approval rating of Brazil’s right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, is at its highest since he took office last year despite the country’s 105,000 deaths from the world’s second-worst coronavirus outbreak, a new poll showed on Friday.