Bolsonaro: “The dictator of Brazil is not me” | It c …

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro assured on Tuesday that he was not the dictator of his country, accusing governors and mayors of having caused the economic crisis by quarantines against the collapse of the hospital due to the coronavirus. This is how the far-right president reacted to the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the role of government against the pandemic. The commission must be ratified this Wednesday by the Federal Supreme Court.

“Brazil’s dictator is not me,” Bolsonaro said, accusing the highest court of allegedly empowering governors and mayors to decide on quarantines and a curfew.

The Head of State met with his supporters at the entrance to the Palacio de la Alvorada. There he presented his complaints about job applications and social benefits from people who came to visit him. “There are people who complain because the work has ended. It was not me who closed the stores. It was not me who forced you to stay at home. I am doing my part. . “, he assured.

Bolsonaro starred in yet another scandal this Sunday after Senator Jorge Kajurú leaked a conversation with the president, in which the president says it is necessary create another commission to investigate governors and mayors and speed up requests for dismissal of judges from courts not aligned with the government.

Last week, Federal Supreme Court Judge Luis Barroso accepted a demand of 31 senators to create a commission of inquiry into the government, in particular into the deaths of patients from lack of oxygen in January in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, since the Ministry of Health would have been warned a week before the collapse.

This Wednesday, the court will vote and approval by a large majority is expected. However, the government negotiated to set time and place limits at the start of the work.

For his part, the head of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, right-wing Democrats and ally of Bolsonaro, said that the commission would be installed, although without a start date, especially as part of the party in power does not want that meetings take place be distant. Pacheco told the economic newspaper Value What “It is not time to talk about impeachment, neither of the judges nor of the president”, with the argument of the health emergency facing the country, with the highest daily average of deaths in the world: 3,124 deaths. However, there can be no commission charged with investigating non-Bolonarian governors since it is the authority of regional parliaments.

The pandemic figures

In total, Brazil has 354,617 dead from Covid-19 and the main affected states have been in detention since early March, although this week Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and São Paulo have started to reduce restrictions despite all having more than 80% of occupation of hospitals. .

San Pablo, with a population similar to Argentina, has passed 83,000 dead. The state has reduced an occupancy of 93 percent of intensive care beds for Covid-19 to 88 percent in two weeks. This was due to the emergency containment phase, which this week returned to the red phase with the authorization of face-to-face courses with a capacity of 35%. The governor of San Pablo, Joao Doria inaugurated on Tuesday the thirteenth field hospital opened in the second wave, aggravated by the predominance of the P1 or Amazonas variant.

The vaccination which started on January 17 started to have more obstacles along the way, as admitted today by the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga. The official told reporters that 1.5 million Brazilians did not appear to apply the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine: in Brazil, the Chinese CoronaVac, from Sinovac and the Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca-Oxford are administered.

“There are 1.5 million people with the late second dose,” said Queiroga, who explained that AstraZeneca is most effective when there is a three-month gap, while with CoronaVac it is recommended. wait between 21 and 28 days for the second dose.

In Brazil, 31.2 million doses were administered to 14.75% of the population, although only 3.49% (7.3 million people) received both doses, according to information from the Secretariats of State for Health.

Upcoming vaccines

In the meantime, the government has announced that it will receive 800,000 doses of Pfizer as part of the global Covax plan promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO). The National Health Surveillance Agency has approved Pfizer and the Janssen vaccine, although it does not currently have them.

The Russian Sputnik V is pending approval, hired by governors and mayors and whose ally is the Brazilian pharmaceutical company Uniao Quimica, which has two factories to manufacture it in Brasilia and Guarulhos, São Paulo.

So far, eight out of ten vaccines have come from CoronaVac, imported from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac Life Science and packaged by the Butantan Institute in São Paulo. In turn, eThe government is betting that the federal laboratory Fiocruz will manufacture 20 million AstraZeneca vaccines per month from May.