Brazil: politicians' Digital Popularity Index scores after the COVID-19 outbreak

In Brazil, during the outbreak of the coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, president Jair Messias Bolsonaro's digital popularity index decreased. On February 25, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 in Brazil was reported and Bolsonaro scored 83.1 points on a scale from zero to 100. One month and 2,200 reported cases later, the president's score amounted to 69.1, a decline of over 16 percent. Meanwhile, the online popularity of at least three Brazilian governors increased. Flávio Dino, from the state of Maranhão, saw his digital popularity index score increase nearly 55 percent from 12.74 on February 25 to 19.73 on March 25, 2020.