Mourão opposes Bolsonaro and says the federal government will buy the Chinese vaccine: ‘Of course it will’ | Politics

“Of course it does,” Mourão said, contradicting what President Jair Bolsonaro has said on the subject. In the interview, the deputy reduced the controversy over the “Chinese vaccine” to a political fight between Bolsonaro and the governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB).

“This vaccine issue is a political fight with Doria. The government is going to buy the vaccine, of course it will. We have already put the resources in Butantan to produce this vaccine. The government will not escape from that,” said Mourão to “Veja”.

Vaccines related to Covid-19 are still under study, and therefore none of them have been approved for use in the general population thus far. On Wednesday (28), the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) authorized the importation of raw materials so that the Butantan Institute can produce 40 million doses of CoronaVac.

Last week, Anvisa had already authorized the importation of 6 million doses of CoronaVac, which will already be packaged and ready for use. However, the request will only be authorized once the studies have been completed and if the conclusions are positive.

In an interview with “Veja” magazine, Mourão said that he was not afraid of receiving a vaccine from China. “As long as it is certified by Anvisa. No problem,” he said.

On the 21st, Bolsonaro posted on social media: “We will not buy the vaccine from China.” The same day he said that the government was looking for a “reliable vaccine” and that the rest was a “political game.”

Hours earlier, the Health Ministry had announced the purchase of 46 million doses of CoronaVac, developed by the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. The ministry even changed a statement posted on the Internet, changing the “dose acquisition” to “possible acquisition.”

Doria, who was in Brasilia on the day of Bolsonaro’s messages, said: “It is the vaccine that will save us, that will save everyone. It is not ideology, it is not politics, it is not an electoral process that saves, it is the vaccine.”

The same agreement for the 46 million doses, announced and later rectified by the Ministry of Health, had already been signed between the government of SP and the Sinovac laboratory.

The contract provided that SP would receive 6 million doses already filled and material to manufacture another 40 million on Brazilian soil. In rejecting the “Chinese vaccine,” Bolsonaro did not explain what dose he was referring to. Doria has said that the agreements closed in SP remain.

Fight Covid ‘note eight’

Asked about the grade he would give Brazil in the fight against Covid-19, Hamilton Mourão responded to the magazine that he would give it an “eighth grade.”

“Brazil is an unequal country: it is not France, it is not Germany, it is not Spain. We didn’t have a second wave here. We are in the first wave and the disease will die in that wave. Our health system weathered the crisis. They said that people would die in the street, ”he said.

Regarding the fact that he was one of the members of the government who did not contract the disease, the vice president said that the formula was to have used a mask and alcohol gel.

At this point, Mourão also departs from Bolsonaro. For supporters, the President of the Republic already ignored scientific knowledge when he stated that the effectiveness of the mask is “almost nil.” Bolsonaro never presented evidence to support this distrust of protective equipment.

Asked about the fires in the Amazon and the Pantanal, Mourão, who heads the National Council for the Legal Amazon, said that the government is not “standing idly by.”

Next week, Mourão will take diplomatic representatives from 10 countries to the Amazon region to defend “that the Brazilian Amazon is preserved.”

“It is not a question that everything is fine. But the idea that the Brazilian government is standing idly by and I’m going to use the fashionable term is being sold to the rest of the world and to a part of Brazilian society,” he ordered. to cattle pass. “This is not what is happening,” declared Mourão.

The “buzzword” of passing cattle was highlighted when used by Environment Minister Ricardo Salles. In a ministerial meeting that was made public, Salles said the government should take advantage of the population’s focus on the pandemic to “pass the cattle” with initiatives to reduce environmental regulation.

Asked by “Veja” about possible government errors in conducting environmental policies in the Amazon, Mourão replied that the biome has 5.2 million square kilometers, and the fire reaches 100,000 square kilometers.