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BRASILIA – Less than 24 hours after the Health Ministry announced that it intends to purchase 46 million doses of Coronavac, a candidate vaccine against Covid-19 from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac Biotech tested in Brazil by the Butantan Institute, President Jair said on Wednesday Bolsonaro. – Immunization against the new coronavirus “will not be bought” by the Brazilian government. The message was published on a social network, in response to a critical comment to the announcement of the portfolio commanded by Eduardo Pazuello.
“President, China is a dictatorship, please do not buy this vaccine. I am only 17 years old and I want to have a future, but without interference from the Chinese dictatorship,” said the user, to which the president replied:
“WILL NOT BE PURCHASED”, in capital letters.
The message was sent to at least two other users who criticized the agreement and to the Minister of Health. In two of the responses, the president also said that “today everything will be clarified.”
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According to allies, the president also sent messages indicating that he would not buy “a single dose of vaccine from China” and that if the government “does not maintain any dialogue with João Dória on the Covid-19 issue.”
The deal criticized by sympathizers was closed during a meeting of the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, with the governors. The purchase will only be made after the vaccine receives a registration from the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).
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To another user who accused Pazuello of betraying the government by buying the Chinese vaccine and said that the president “was wrong again,” Bolsonaro said on the social network that “everything that is published, without any proof, becomes BETRAYAL.” .
The vaccine developed by the Chinese laboratory is criticized by government supporters who link it to the communist regime. In addition, the immunizer is produced in Brazil in association with São Paulo, by Governor João Doria (PSDB), a former ally of Bolsonaro and a critical voice in handling the crisis caused by the president’s pandemic.
