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TO deputy regional government that last February proposed a bill to the legislature of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul to prevent the mandatory vaccination of the population against covid died this Saturday a victim of the disease.
The legislator Silvio Antonio Favero, which he shared with the Brazilian president, Jair bolsonaro, his doubts about the efficacy and safety of the Covid vaccines, he died in the hospital where he had been admitted since on Thursday of last week for complications related to the virustheir relatives reported.
Favero, 54, was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul for the Social Liberal Party (PSL), the same formation by which Bolsonaro was elected president in 2018 and from which it disassociated itself last year due to disagreements with its leaders.
The regional legislator shared on his social networks the publications in which the leader of the Brazilian extreme right makes clear his denial in the face of the seriousness of the pandemic, his distrust of vaccines and his rejection of social distancing measures.
Favero presented last February a bill before the legislature of Mato Grosso do Sul for “guarantee the right of citizens to decide whether or not they want to be vaccinated“.
That position is shared by Bolsonaro, who has already warned that vaccination is not mandatory in Brazil despite the fact that the Supreme Court authorized regional and municipal governments to impose sanctions on those who refuse to be immunized, such as making it difficult for them to access public services.
According to the text of the law of the bill that he presented, “currently there is no total security about the safety of vaccines, since possible collateral effects can offer an irreparable risk in the medium and long term that for now are unknown.”
THE COMPLEX EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION OF BRAZIL
Brazil, current global epicenter of the Covid pandemic, registered 1,986 new deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours, bringing the average number of deaths in the last week it was above 1,800 a day for the first time since the start of the health crisis.
According to the Ministry of Health, Brazil accumulates until this Saturday 277,091 deaths since the start of the pandemic after having registered between Wednesday and Saturday the four deadliest days since the beginning of the pandemic.
The South American giant accumulates 11,438,935 infected, thereby displacing India from second place on the list of countries with the most cases of the disease.
The Asian country was since September last year the second country most affected by the pandemic after the United States, but it only accounted for 24,882 new cases this Saturday, bringing its accumulated until today (11,333,728) below the Brazilian.
Brazil was already the second country in number of deaths from Covid, only surpassed by U.S.
The high averages in recent days confirm that Brazil is currently experiencing a second wave of the pandemic, more virulent and lethal than the first, in part caused by the circulation of new strains of the virus, among which the Brazilian variant that originated in the Amazon and which, according to researchers, is three times more contagious than the original.
And while the pandemic is advancing by long strides, vaccination continues its slow process and as of this Saturday only about 10 million Brazilians, 4.7% of the population, had received the first dose of the antidote.
