Brazil s vaccination plan is assailed as incompetent
Listen | Print By Joshua Howat Berger (AFP) Dec 13, 2020 in World
President Jair Bolsonaro faced scathing criticism Sunday over his government s plan or lack thereof, opponents said to vaccinate the population against Covid-19 in Brazil, the country with the second-highest death toll worldwide.
Brazil published its vaccination plan Saturday with notable holes, including a start date and details of how to reach its target of 70 percent of the population.
That prompted a new salvo of criticism of the far-right president, who has persistently defied expert advice on containing the pandemic and recently declared he did not plan to be vaccinated.
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São Paulo Governor João Doria points to a container carrying the experimental COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac during a photo opportunity, after it was unloaded from a cargo plane that arrived from China at Guarulhos International Airport near São Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 19, 2020. Credit:
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As the number of COVID-19 fatalities keeps climbing, debate over the safety and effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines for use in Brazil is turning into a partisan tug of war.
CoronaVac, a vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech, has shown promising results. But scientists like Natalia Pasternak, a research fellow at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Biomedical Sciences says Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is attempting to block use of the vaccine simply because it was developed in China.