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According to the newspaper “O Estado de S. Paulo”, the Ministry of Health stores in São Paulo a stock of 6.86 million Covid-19 tests that may expire until January 2021. According to the report, the tests are of the RT type -PCR and are stored in a warehouse in Guarulhos. The tests cost the Union R $ 290 million.
In a statement, the ministry confirmed the existence of tests with a close expiration date, but did not report the number of kits and did not confirm the number disclosed by the newspaper. The ministry also said it expects to receive “extended stability” studies for the stored tests.
Nearly 7 million covid tests may expire in a federal government shed
In the verification request sent to the TCU, Deputy Attorney General Lucas Furtado argued that public health management in the country “is on the way to a truly desperate situation.
“It is necessary to re-represent the Court of Auditors [TCU] against the work of the Ministry of Health, under whose management public health in Brazil is heading for a truly desperate situation. As I warned you on previous occasions, the federal government and the Ministry of Health have turned their back on the technical recommendations of respected international institutions, based on scientific studies, preferring that public authorities bet on the production of medicines based solely on beliefs that border on superstition. “Furtado says in the application.
“As I have said before and I insist, there is no other way to follow in this pandemic, other than the one indicated by science and the WHO. Any oblique shortcut that is taken, not supported by scientific knowledge, represents an option for obscurantism and its dire consequences, including economic losses whose investigation falls to the Court of Auditors, “added the deputy attorney general, in another passage.
Earlier Monday, President Jair Bolsonaro said on social media that the federal government sent “all the material” for Covid-19 testing to states and municipalities.
Bolsonaro also affirmed that it is up to the states and municipalities to explain if these tests win before being used.
Bolsonaro denies that Covid-19 tests close to winning are with the government
In another representation sent to the TCU, Senator Fabiano Contarato affirms that one of the problems of the pandemic is the lack of massive tests.
Given this, he asks the court to know the possible responsibilities of public agents in the case.
“The Ministry of Health must immediately explain this attack on public health, a fact aggravated by the arrival of the second wave of the pandemic. Brazil accumulates the sad mark of 169 thousand deaths and 6 million cases of Covid-19. The government The public threw money in the trash by not using purchased tests and contributed to the spread of the disease, leaving the population unprotected, “Contarato said, in a note.
