“We are one of those tragic moments in history when millions of people pay a high price for being the nation’s unprepared and psychiatric leader,” Joao Doria said in an interview with CNN on Monday.
Doria said that if Bolsonaro had “fulfilled the responsibility given to him by this position”, most of the deaths caused by the virus in Brazil could have been avoided.
He added that Bolsonaro had made “unbelievable mistakes, the biggest of which was a political dispute with governors who are trying to protect the people.”
Bolsonaro has repeatedly opposed lockdowns and restrictive measures and criticized governors and mayors for enforcing them.
The governor added that he was facing the biggest challenge of his life as governor of Brazil’s largest state, and that he would have to restructure the healthcare system in “record time” and find ways to alleviate the economic crisis that hit the country during the epidemic. .
Doria also spoke about the critical condition of Sao Paulo’s hospitals and ICUs, saying they have already tripled the number of ICU beds and 12 regional hospitals will be launched in the state this month.
The Covid-19 crisis in Brazil has never been worse.
According to a recent CNN analysis of state data, almost every Brazilian state has an ICU business of 80% or more. As of Friday, 16 of the 26 states had more than 90% or more, meaning the health system had collapsed or was in danger of collapsing.
And as of Friday, less than 100 million people in a country of about 220 million people had received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, according to federal health data. Only 1.57% of the population was fully vaccinated.
It is the result of a slow rollout program that suffers from delays. During the announcement of its distribution plan in early February, the government promised to receive about 46 million vaccine doses in March. That number has been forced to drop repeatedly, and it is now estimated that only 26 million doses will be available by the end of the month.
Doria said 0% of the vaccine in Brazil was made by the Sao Paulo Button Institute – affiliated with the Sao Paulo government – and by the end of August they had made 100 million vaccines available nationwide.
“It’s not enough yet,” he said, adding that the federal government began buying the vaccine in March when the state of S સાo Paulo began in April last year.
CNN’s Met Rivers contributed to this report.
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