The four biggest Brazilian media outlets pulled reporters from the presidential palace due to harassment by Bolsonaro supporters.

Organizacoes Globo, owner of Brazil's largest TV network TV Globo, the newspapers O Globo and Valor Economico, along with three other major traditional agencies TV Bandeirantes, the daily Folha de S.Paulo and Estado de S.Paulo

They explained the decision was due to the fact that the authorities did not have security measures to protect professional reporters from harassment and harassment actions of supporters of President Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro has a habit of stopping by the entrance to Alvorada Palace to chat with his supporters, take selfies with them and answer interviews with reporters.

Earlier this week, about 60 Bolsonrao supporters shouted at the reporters who were working, claiming they were "liars" and "scum".

Attacks on Brazilian journalists increased as Bolsonaro was faced with criticism of how to respond to the Covid-19 crisis, a pandemic that has killed more than 20,000 Brazilians and paralyzed the country's economy.

His supporters believe the media is part of the right-wing president's "overthrow".

Brazil's Folha newspaper said it would only send reporters to report once the Bolsonaro government took security measures for journalists.

More than 210 countries and territories have had Covid-19 since the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, leaving 5.7 million infected and more than 352,000 dead.