Leaked Covid-19 report calls for mass homicide charges against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro - CNN

CNN Brasil received draft excerpts of a congressional investigation that accuses Bolsonaro and other government officials of allowing the lethal coronavirus to spread through the population in hopes of achieving herd immunity.

More than 600,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Brazil, which has the second-highest death toll in the world after the United States.

The excerpts show the probe's report effectively blames the Bolsonaro administration's policies for more than half of those deaths, and calls for murder charges against the President.

Another highlights an alleged "intention to immunize the population through natural contamination."

"With this behavior, the federal government, which had a legal duty to act, agreed with the death of Brazilians," it says.

The draft report also recommends criminal charges against 69 other people, including three of Bolsonaro's sons and numerous current and former government officials.

The final, nearly 1,200-page document is expected to be officially discussed in the Brazilian Senate on Wednesday, the Brazilian Senate Pandemic Parliamentary Inquiry (CPI) told CNN.

Bolsonaro's office did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.