Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday threatened to withdraw his country from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bolsonaro said Brazil will consider leaving the WHO unless it stops being a "partisan political organization."
Earlier, the WHO showed an opposite view against Bolsonaro's efforts to lift lockdowns, as the Covid-19 epidemic was still plaguing the country.
Speaking about loosening the social distancing order, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said a key criteria for lifting lockdowns should be slowing transmission.
With a new record of daily Covid-19 fatalities, Brazil overtook Italy to become a country with the third highest infections in the world.
Brazil's total Covid-19 deaths have surged to 34,021 after its health ministry on Thursday reported 1,437 new deaths in the past 24 hours.