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“The Bic pen is mine,” President Jair Bolsonaro (non-party) said on Friday afternoon (30) about the possibility of the federal government buying the Chinese vaccine against covid-19. Dictated to the R7 portal, the speech is a response to Vice President Hamilton Mourão (PRTB), who said it was “logical” that the Coronavac, manufactured by the Chinese laboratory Sinovac with the Butantan Institute, was bought by Brazil.
“The government will buy the vaccine, of course it will. We have already put the resources in Butantan to produce this vaccine. The government will not run away,” Mourão told Veja magazine.
Coronavac has been the target of a confrontation between Bolsonaro and the governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), a political opponent of the president.
In a meeting with governors, Health Minister General Eduardo Pazuello had said that the Brazilian government would use the vaccine in SUS, but Bolsonaro immediately dismissed it.
At the time, Bolsonaro said that he would not invest in a vaccine without Anvisa’s approval. Then he said that even with Anvisa’s approval, he would not buy the vaccine from China. in the fourth, Anvisa released imports of the raw material necessary to start manufacturing doses of Coronavac in Brazil.
