Questions have emerged in Brazil over the origins of a video highlighting the damage that a coronavirus shut down would likely cause the economy, including whether it is associated with President Jair Bolsonaro.

The video, which started circulating on Friday, begins with a narrator saying «For Brazil’s nearly 40 million self-employed workers, Brazil cannot stop.»

As images are shown of Brazilians in their workplaces and homes, the narrator continues: “For all the businesses that are stopped and that will end up having to shut their doors or fire employees, Brazil cannot stop. … For Brazilians infected with coronavirus, for everyone who depends on care and the arrival of medicines and equipment, Brazil cannot stop.”

The video ends with the logo of Brazil’s federal government. The video was shared on pro-Bolsonaro media accounts, including the official Facebook page of his son Flavio Bolsonaro, a senator.

But by Saturday, Brazilian media reported that the president’s social communication secretariat (SECOM) had issued a note denying that it was behind any ad campaign called “Brazil Cannot Stop.”

Congressman Alexandre Padilha, from the center-left Workers Party, wrote on his official Twitter account that the ad campaign was “criminal publicity from Bolsonaro.”