Contrary to Bolsonaro, the vice president of Brazil affirmed that he will receive the vaccine against covid-19: “It is a collective difficulty, not an individual one”

In the picture, the vice president of Brazil, Hamilton Mourao. . / Andre Borges / Archive

The Vice President of Brazil, Hamilton Mourao, stated this Monday that he will receive the vaccine against COVID-19, against the hand of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has publicly reiterated that no immunizer will be utilized.

Mourao, who returned to work this Monday after being remoted for 12 days by COVID-19 with delicate signs, stated that the vaccine ought to be for the total nation as a result of the difficulty of immunization is a “collective affair”.

“I consider that the vaccine is for the nation as a complete, it is a collective difficulty, not an individual one.”, He assured the press earlier than getting into his workplace.

The vice president’s statements are in distinction to these of the head of state, a denier about the severity of the illness and who publicly rejects the obligatory nature of the antidote against the coronavirus.

Regardless of the truth that greater than 50 international locations in the world, together with a number of in Latin America similar to Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Costa Rica, have already began vaccination campaigns against the coronavirus, Brazil nonetheless has no particular date.

FILE PHOTO-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro embraces Vice President Hamilton Mourao throughout the Aviator’s Day ceremony at Brasilia Air Base, Brazil. October 23, 2020. REUTERS / Adriano Machado

As well as, the Nationwide Well being Surveillance Company (Anvisa, regulator) solely acquired till final Friday the requests for the emergency use of the first two vaccines: the Chinese language “Coronavac” and that of the College of Oxford.

The Authorities has already designed a vaccination plan and immunization may begin at finest on January 20, as defined final week by the Minister of Well being, Eduardo Pazuello.

Nevertheless, it is a race against time to have the ability to begin on that date, since Anvisa has up to ten days to reply to requests for the emergency use of vaccines.

Though the first doses can be distributed in the 27 states of the nation in 24 hours, regional governments clarified that they want no less than three days to begin vaccination upon arrival in every area.

To this point, Brazil has 354 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines confirmed for 2021: 212.four million doses of the Oxford vaccine, 42.5 million of the immunizer produced by the WHO Covax Facility consortium, and 100 million from the Chinese language “Coronavac”, produced by the Brazilian Institute Butantan.

(With info from .)

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