In today’s newsletter: Brazilians will go to the polls again after leftist former president Lula won the first vote but failed to secure a majority over far right incumbent
Brazil s President Bolsonaro had videos removed from his Facebook and Instagram on Sunday after he shared a false UK government report of COVID jab linked to AIDS on Thursday.
First day of vaccinations against Covid-19 on Jan.18, at Christ the Redeemer, during an event hosted by the Archdiocese in Rio de Janeiro. Terezinha da Conceição receives her shot from nursing technician Dulcinéia da Silva Lopes. Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil
Brazil is famous for having one of the most successful public vaccination programs in the world. Every year, more than 300 million doses of serums and vaccines are produced and distributed throughout the continent-sized country.
Vaccination programs have eradicated diseases like smallpox and polio and continue to prevent outbreaks of measles, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. Brazil’s vaccination programs regularly reach people in urban peripheries, rural areas and the indigenous communities of its vast interior.