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The Ministry of Health issued a note on Monday (7) in which it informed that it must sign the memorandum of purchase intention this week. 70 million doses of the vaccine produced by Pfizer and Biontech against Covid-19.
According to the note, negotiations are “moving forward” and the vaccine is scheduled for 2021. However, the date has not been specified.
“The Brazilian government and Pfizer are advancing their plans to purchase 70 million doses of the Pfizer and Biontech vaccine against Covid-19, to be provided in 2021. Terms are well advanced and should be finalized soon this week with the signing of the memorandum. of intentions ”, informed the ministry.
TV Globo found that, on Monday, the executive secretary of the ministry, Elcio Franco, and legal technicians from the portfolio met with representatives of Pfizer.
Until then, the federal government had announced only a partnership for the research and national production of the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.
According to the governor of Piauí, Wellington Dias, a meeting between the governors and the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, is scheduled for this Tuesday (8) to discuss the vaccination plan for the population.
On Monday, The Washington Post reported that Pfizer told the United States government that it will not be able to provide the country with additional doses of the vaccine until June or July next year. This is because, according to the newspaper, there are requests from other countries.
Therefore, according to the newspaper, the United States should receive 100 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
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President Jair Bolsonaro used social networks on Monday to report that the future vaccine against Covid-19 will be distributed free of charge to the entire population.
Bolsonaro did not specify whether this will apply to any of the vaccines in development.
“If there is Anvisa certification (scientific guidelines and legal precepts), the Brazilian government will offer the vaccine to the entire population free of charge and not compulsory,” Bolsonaro wrote.
The Butantan Institute, in São Paulo, develops the Coronavac vaccine in partnership with the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. In Paraná, the local government signed an alliance with Russia to develop the Sputnik V vaccine. In the Federal District, the Belgian vaccine produced by the Janssen laboratory is in the testing phase.
Maia says that the Legislature will define a vaccination plan with or without government
Discussion in Congress and STF
This Monday, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), said that the Legislative Branch will define a strategy to vaccinate the population against Covid-19 with or without government participation.
For Maia, society “will panic” if Brazil does not have a vaccination plan.
In parallel, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) will judge on the 17th, an action that discusses whether or not the government should develop a vaccination plan within 30 days.
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