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President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) said today that any vaccine that receives the endorsement of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) will be offered to all Brazilians free of charge, and said that there will be sufficient resources for the immunization of the population.
“If there is certification by Anvisa (scientific guidelines and legal precepts), the government will offer the vaccine to everyone, free and not mandatory,” he said on Twitter. “According to the Ministry of Economy, there will be enough resources for everyone to be served.” , modified.
In the post, Bolsonaro appears in a photograph with the Minister of the Economy, Paulo Guedes.
The federal government has been pressured by the São Paulo government, managed by the disgruntled João Doria (PSDB), to buy CoronaVac, a vaccine for the Chinese Sinovac that the Butantan Institute is preparing in the country.
Bolsonaro publicly doubted the effectiveness of CoronaVac and vetoed an agreement between the Ministry of Health and Butantan. The federal government has been working with the AstraZeneca vaccine in partnership with the University of Oxford.
