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The Ministry of Health responded to the Governor of São Paulo, João Doria, and sent CNN, this Sunday night (17), documents that, according to the folder, attest that the federal government contributed financially to the production of Coronavac by the Butantan Institute.
Among the documents is the edition of the Official Gazette of December 24 with an agreement signed between the ministry and the institute, through which the portfolio transfers R $ 63.2 million for the purchase of equipment for the Center for Multipurpose Production of Vaccines of butantan.
This center belongs to the Butantan Institute and is undergoing expansion works. According to the extract from the Union agreement with the institute, of this amount, R $ 42.7 million would still be transferred in 2020 and another R $ 20.5 million in 2021. Wanted, Butantan has not yet responded.
In a previous press conference, the governor of São Paulo said he was “astonished” with the statements of the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, that the doses of the vaccine applied this Sunday by the São Paulo government had been bought by the government. federal.
“The Butantan vaccine is only in São Paulo and Brazil because it was an investment by the São Paulo state government. There is no penny, not even for study, research, nothing from the federal government. Be honest, no more lies, ”Doria said.
TO CNN, the Ministry of Health also sent an official letter sent to the portfolio on January 8 by Butantan, in which the institute affirms that the first delivery of the contract signed with the Chinese laboratory Sinovac was “made entirely with private resources.”
