Temporary Covid-19 hospital in São Paolo.
Brazilâs unified health-care system has shown in the past that it can roll out a comprehensive national vaccination programme. But the slow and uneven roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine is showing the health-care systemâs limits.
Only about 10 years ago, Brazil was a world leader in immunising residents against a deadly virus. At the height of the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic in 2010, Brazil vaccinated more than 100 million people, including 80 million within just three months. Brazil immunised more people than any other country, according to Brasil de Fato (“Brazil in fact”), a left-leaning newspaper.