Bolsonaro visits market to press need to keep Brazil going during pandemic

FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is pictured at a press briefing in Brasilia, Brazil, March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro visited a market area just outside the Brazilian capital on Sunday to press home his case for keeping Latin America's largest economy ticking instead of locking down activities to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

But Bolsonaro office's social media campaign "Brazil can't stop" was banned on Saturday by a federal judge and ran into a barrage of criticism from state governors, politicians, public health experts and even his own health minister.