FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2020 file photo, a woman participates in a protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the new coronavirus pandemic in Brazilia, Brazil. The country hasn't approved a single vaccine yet, and independent health experts who participated in its immunization program say the plan is still incomplete, at best.
Brazil has suffered more than 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest total in the world after the United States, with infections and deaths surging again. Despite a half-century of successful vaccination programs, the federal government is trailing regional and global peers in both approving vaccines and cobbling together an immunization strategy.
The Health Ministry’s National Immunization Program has a long history of success. Created over 40 years ago, it has enabled Brazil to eradicate polio and significantly reduce measles, rubella, tetanus and diphtheria. The effort won recognition from UNICEF for reaching the vast country’s most remote corners and has contributed to extending Brazilians’ life expectancy fromThat is no small task in a nation of 210 million people, the world’s sixth-largest population.
The Health Ministry published its tender for 331 million syringes in mid-December, but received bids for only 8 million by its Dec. 29 deadline. Brazilian syringe manufacturers complained the government’s price limit was below market value. However, in an injunction issued last week, the Supreme Court prohibited the federal government from requisitioning syringes from state governments like Sao Paulo that had already purchased them.
Since Pazuello took over in May, more than 30 military personnel have been appointed to key ministry positions, including the head of Anvisa, the agency that approves use of vaccines.
Yoda lives.
Brazil is in the grip of a right wing leader. Need we say more?
'Vaccination will start on D day at H hour' seems like the D(ay) and H(our) were simply left blank? ...kinda like that expression on Bolsonaro.
Why this lady face look like that
Corrupt Brazilian government that had prosecuted and persecuted the ex-presidents for wrongful allegations face the consequences at last.
When you have the Trump of South America who said,'well we're all going to die some time,' running the country, what do you expect?
Gee, with Bolsonaro in charge I'm shocked 🙄
The plan is going well since Bolsonaro's plan is to let brazilian people die.
Is that Palpatine?!
I mean the whole goal of his policy was to discredit vaccines and murder poor people so it checks out.
the president and his ministers are incompetent and spread lies about vaccination. no national plan, no desire to have one.
Almost like authoritarian regimes suck at anything important
It's a shame. Uma vergonha. Milhares morrendo e o governo não faz NADA. 'Todo mundo morre um dia' disse bolsonaro, fazer o que né?
Sounds familiar
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It looks like we'll witness an unprecedented tragedy.
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