Brazil: a deputy who proposed a law to …

Silvio Antonio Favero, an MP from Brazil who had recently proposed a law Project in Mato Grosso do Sul for prevent compulsory vaccination against coronavirus, died in the last hours victim of this disease. The lawmaker was hospitalized last Thursday for complications related to the virus.

Favero, 54, was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul for the Liberal Social Party (PSL), the political force through which Jair Bolsonaro was elected president in 2018 and from which he ultimately walked away due to differences on different fronts.

He shared with the Brazilian president his doubts about the efficacy and safety of vaccines against the coronavirus, which is why he had recently proposed a bill before the legislature of Mato Grosso do Sul to “Guarantee the citizen’s right to decide whether or not he wants to be vaccinated.”

Currently, the lawmaker argued in the text of his bill, “there is no total safety about the safety of vaccines, because possible side effects they can offer irreparable risks in the medium and long term which are currently unknown ”.

Bolsonaro, questioned around the world for his denial in the face of the pandemic, which he has come to qualify as “flu”, because He warned that vaccination is not compulsory in his country, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has authorized regional and municipal governments to impose sanctions on those who refuse to be vaccinated, which for example made it difficult for them to access public services.

Coronavirus in Brazil

Brazil, with more than 277,000 deaths, it is the second country with the deadliest victims of the coronavirus, just behind the United States. In the last 24 hours, 76,178 infections and 1,997 deaths have been recorded.

The pandemic, there, is in full ascending phase, in part because of the circulation of new strains of the virus such as the variant originating in the Amazon and which, according to the researchers, is three times more contagious than the original.

In addition, the health crisis has intensified in recent days, with the lack of intensive care beds in almost every state nationwide. The most affected by the collapse are Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.

Almost the entire country is under a nighttime curfew, in the more populous states, businesses are closed and only essential activities are allowed. With these measures, the authorities are trying to prevent the total collapse of hospitals. Something is about to happen, according to the latest newsletter from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), one of the most important research centers.