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President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) said today that he has a “ready project” against the covid-19 pandemic, which is hitting the country the hardest this year. However, he did not give details of what his plan would be like. In another excerpt from a conversation with journalists, the president said that vaccines, “early” treatment and a spray still under study are the federal government’s responses to the country’s health crisis.
“If I have the power to decide, I have my program and my project ready to be put into practice in Brazil,” said the president. “I need to have authority. If the Federal Supreme Court believes that it can grant due control of this case to a central power, which I understand is rightfully mine, I am ready to implement my plan …”
He made the remarks after a meeting with Kuwaiti diplomats in Brasilia. Journalists questioned him about the increase in the number of deaths in the country: here, deaths grow by 11%, while they fall by 6% in the rest of the world. He replied that the government works with vaccination, with what he calls “early treatment” and with agreements for the future use of a spray still under study in Israel.
“We are going to send our team to Israel on Saturday, to make contact with a hospital that is developing spray for severe cases of covid. We have a draft agreement, memorandum of intent. We are going to seek the third phase of this spray as well. it can be used in Brazil. “
The president said there are vaccine shortages around the world. “Some say, ‘You have to buy it. Tell me where?” Bolsonaro said.
The president presses the request for a curfew
He was asked about the health secretaries’ request for a national curfew or a national policy to address the increase in deaths. “Now? A year later? Do you remember me a year later?” Bolsonaro scoffed.
He criticized the physical isolation measures and passed the responsibility to the STF, which last year decided that the federal government, the states and the municipalities have “competing powers in the area of public health” to combat the covid-19 pandemic. .
“They are being pressured by the population, who can no longer bear to stay at home, they have to work out of necessity. Whatever depends on the Supreme …”
But, according to Bolsonaro, in practice this means that the last word is with the mayors. “I can take a measure and the governor a more restrictive measure and the mayor more restrictive than the mayor [sic] yet.”
The president said he would like to have the power to decide. “Unfortunately, the power is theirs. I wanted it to be mine.” Bolsonaro replied that he could not give details about the “ready project” that he claimed to have.
Pazuello will evaluate requests for money
Bolsonaro said he was always concerned about the deaths caused by the coronavirus, but that he paid attention to the economic problems caused by health measures. “The economy has to recover. I am concerned about deaths, but employment is also life.”
He said that the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, will analyze the requests of the governors for greater economic resources to face the pandemic.
“There is no lack of resources so that we can help in this area of health, but there must be a provision on the part of the governors,” Bolsonaro said. “We never shy away from releasing resources. A large amount was released. I don’t want to blame anyone for anything, but they were huge resources and much of the problem could be solved.”
Bolsonaro then considered that the country was hit by a second wave of covid-19 with the variant of the P1 coronavirus.
“Now a second wave has arrived, a new strain, that nobody expected. It seems that yesterday the governors asked for more resources. I will speak with Pazuello. We will do everything to preserve lives.”
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