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The Minister of Health, General Eduardo Pazuello, is with Covid-19, according to the diagnosis made on Wednesday (21). The information was confirmed to sheet by the Ministry of Health. With the diagnosis, he becomes the 12th assistant to the first echelon of Bolsonaro’s government infected with the disease, in addition to the president himself.
To those attending, Pazuello had already reported discomfort on Monday (19), which led him to cancel his participation in an event of the Ministry of Science and Technology, at the Planalto Palace.
On Tuesday, the minister had a fever and again canceled agendas, keeping only the meeting with the governors, in which he participated at home and during which he announced the contract of intention to purchase 46 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine, manufactured by the Chinese SinoVac. with the Butantan Institute.
On Wednesday (21), however, the portfolio backed down in part of the announcement, after President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) affirmed that he would undo the agreement and disavow the minister, who the day before referred to the immunizing agent produced under the Governor João Doria’s management (PSDB), discontent of the president, as “the vaccine of Brazil.”
In total, 12 of the 23 ministers of the current administration hired Covid-19, including all the first-level assistants who dispatch at the Planalto Palace. The president himself was also infected, but he recovered without reporting major symptoms.
Last week, Communications Minister Fábio Faria said he had a positive diagnosis for Covid-19. The day before he participated in an interview at the Palácio do Planalto, without a mask.
The pandemic did not end, but in Brasilia the authorities resumed the ceremonies and ceremonies.
The inauguration of the new president of the STF (Federal Supreme Court), Luiz Fux, for example, last month, left seven authorities contaminated.
