Synopsis
There were several red flags, according to Miranda, who testified Friday before a Senate panel investigating the government s handling of the pandemic, which has claimed more than 500,000 lives in Brazil, second only to the United States.
Reuters
There was something fishy about the invoice: why was a company in Singapore billing Brazil $45 million for an Indian Covid-19 vaccine that hadn t been delivered? The request for payment for three million doses of Indian firm Bharat Biotech s Covaxin vaccine landed on March 18 on the desk of Luis Ricardo Miranda, head of medical imports at the Brazilian health ministry. There were several red flags, according to Miranda, who testified Friday before a Senate panel investigating the government s handling of the pandemic, which has claimed more than 500,000 lives in Brazil, second only to the United States.
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