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BRASÍLIA – President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed on Monday that he will sign a provisional measure (MP) that will release R $ 20 billion for the purchase of vaccines against Covid-19. He also said that another MP will be issued establishing the need to sign a term of responsibility for those who took the vaccine.
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– I must sign tomorrow a provisional measure of R $ 20 billion to buy vaccine – said Bolsonaro, in a conversation with supporters at the door of the Palácio do Alvorada. – Maybe tomorrow there will be another interim measure. It is not mandatory, you will have to sign a term of responsibility to take it. Because Pfizer, for example, is very clear in the contract: “we are not responsible for side effects.”
The amount quoted is more than ten times higher than that released for the purchase of the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory. For 100 million doses, the government will pay R $ 1.9 billion.
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Bolsonaro said that the “responsibility” will be on the person who receives the vaccine:
– There are people who want to take it, so take it, it’s your responsibility. If there is a problem there, I hope not …
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The president also questioned the period in which the vaccine is capable of protecting against the new coronavirus.
– This vaccine now, what is the validity of it? How long do you take yourself today and stay immune? How soon should you take another dose? Now it costs us R $ 20 billion at the beginning.
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The president once again advocated ineffective drugs for the treatment against Covid-19, complained about the use of masks and said that whoever is contracting the disease now is because “he stayed at home.”
– The one who takes it now is the one who stayed home. And another, this virus will live with us until it dies.
In addition to the AstraZeneca doses, Brazil also has an agreement to purchase 42.5 million doses from the Covax consortium, coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO). At Covax, the WHO makes vaccines available as they are approved for use regardless of the laboratory that develops them.
The government also said that Brazil is already in negotiations to obtain 70 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
The vaccination plan sent by the Ministry of Health to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) also says that the government has a budget reserved for the purchase of other vaccines in the test phase and cites 13 of them as “candidates”, such as CoronaVac, from the Sinovac laboratory. , which will be produced by the Butantan Institute.
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CoronaVac is the center of a dispute between the São Paulo government and the federal government. The state governor, João Doria, promises to begin vaccination in São Paulo on January 25. The setting of this date generated a reaction from governors, such as Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado.
