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BRASÍLIA – The Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, attributed to the “time zone” the difficulty of negotiating with India to import 2 million doses of the Oxford / AztraZeneca vaccine. At a press conference this Monday, Pazuello could not inform the date on which the immunizer approved on Sunday by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) will arrive in Brazil. On Monday, Pazuello also attributed the delay in the arrival of CoronaVac doses to the states to the “change in logistics” necessary to meet governors’ requests.
– Every day we have had diplomatic meetings with India, every day. The time zone is very complicated. We are getting the signal that this must be resolved in the coming days of this week – said the minister.
In the morning, President Jair Bolsonaro met with Indian Ambassador Suresh K. Reddy, in an attempt to speed up the shipment of the vaccine to Brazil. Last week, the Brazilian government even announced that a plane would take off to receive the 2 million doses, but the government of India did not authorize the export, arguing that it would coincide with the start of local vaccination.
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The government was betting on the arrival of doses manufactured in India to start the vaccination campaign without having to count on Coronavac, produced by the Butantan Institute with the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac, seeing this as a political victory for the governor of São Paulo João Doria (PSDB).
Last Thursday, on the eve of the Brazilian plane taking off to rescue doses of the vaccine in India, the spokesman for the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Anurag Srivastava, said it was “too early” to ensure that the country would make available to others. dose of Oxford immunizer, produced locally by the Serum Institute. According to him, the country’s priority is the local vaccination campaign, which began on Saturday.
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Pazuello said that so far there has been no positive response since the date of departure of the vaccines from India to Brazil, but said that he continues to count on the remittance to continue immunization against covid-19.
– So far there is no positive answer. The shipment of the cargo here is scheduled for the next days of that week. We have these 2 million doses to be able to serve the population even more.
