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SAO PAULO (AP) – Criticism from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro denounces the leader’s position on the coronavirus pandemic, this time rejecting his view that vaccination against the virus is not mandatory.
Bolsonaro’s early comments came Monday, when he told a supporter, “No one can force anyone to get vaccinated. “He repeated this thursday night in a live broadcast on Facebook, adding his opposition to the management of vaccines that have not yet shown their value on Brazilian soil.
“This has been demonstrated in other countries, but not here in Brazil,” he said, without specifying what possible vaccine he is referring to. “We can’t be irresponsible and put a vaccine in people’s bodies. Like I said, no one can” force someone to get vaccinated.
Comments were temporarily reprimanded through conflicting parties on social media.
The governor of the state of Sao Paulo, Joo Doria, a former best friend of Bolsonaro turned enemy, said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press that vaccination may not be a private decision. Sao Paulo, with a population of 46 million. , is the epicenter of the pandemic in Brazil, with more than 30,000 deaths from COVID-19, or about a quarter of the number of deaths from the disease in the country.
“It is regrettable that, once he returns, the Brazilian president is setting an example of denial,” Doria said in a video call. “This deserves to be mandatory, unless in express cases or in cases of physical fitness that justify not being vaccinated. An inflamed user infects. ” others and makes it possible for others to die.
Brazil’s Workers’ Party, an opponent of Bolsonaro and Doria, said in a statement that the president’s efforts to raise doubts about a long-term vaccine “ignore the importance of vaccines to protect the physical condition of the entire population. “
The National Health Council, which is a branch of Bolsonaro’s own ministry of health, said in a statement that the government deserves not to communicate about COVID-19 vaccination as non-compulsory.
“The right to individual freedom is so absolute that it is above collective well-being,” the council said.
Since the beginning of the crisis, Bolsonaro has opposed blockades and other significant restrictions on activity imposed through governors on the advice of fitness experts. difficulties in the millions of people living day by day.
To date, Brazil’s Ministry of Health has shown more than four million cases of the disease and 125,000 deaths, both of which refer to the United States, according to the account given through Johns Hopkins University.
With so many in Brazil and a dispersed population of 210 million, several vaccine developers have selected the country to conduct human testing of their products.
The federal government of Bolsonaro has reached an initial agreement with AstraZeneca for 30 million doses of its vaccine, which could later be successful in one hundred million in total.
Meanwhile, the Sao Paulo state government has reached a deal with Chinese vaccine developer Sinovac for 60 million vaccines, if proven effective, but Bolsonaro’s supporters call COVID-19 a “Chinese virus” and they refuse to work with Chinese companies.
Doria said Bolsonaro’s resolve to generate skepticism about vaccines manufactured abroad is a mistake.
“With a singles vaccine, we cannot immunize the entire Brazilian population. We want two, three, four, large-scale products,” the governor said. “As long as it’s effective, it doesn’t matter if it’s Chinese, Russian, French, American or British. What topics it is that it saves lives.
A recent vote by the Ipsos Institute in 27 countries published Wednesday found that 88% of Brazilians surveyed said they would be immune to COVID-19 if a vaccine was available.
Brazil’s Ministry of Health expects vaccine distribution to begin in the first months of 2021.
Max Igor Lopes, infectious diseases specialist at Hospital das Clínicas in Sao Paulo, believes that the controversy over compulsory vaccination is useful.
“What is that other people take the vaccine because they perceive it gives them an advantage,” he said, “and that’s the goal of the vaccine. “