The vice-president of the Federal Republic of Brazil, retired General Hamilton Mourao, 67, tested positive for Covid-19, his press office reported. In a statement, the Vice-President reported that Mourao will be isolated in the Jaburú Palace, the official residence for the vice-presidents, although he did not detailed whether the official encountered symptoms of the disease. At the age of 67, the vice president is considered to be among the risk group for those affected by the pandemic, which caused a total of 191,139 deaths through Sunday.
The official is one of 18,479 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, so the total number of positives since the beginning of the pandemic is 7,484,285.Mourao was one of the few senior commands of the Brazilian state that had not been infected, as Covid-19 Had President Jair Bolsonaro and 13 ministers, in addition to the heads of the supreme court , of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.For his part, the head of state, after saying that he did not give importance to supposed “backwards” in an undated vaccination plan, changed his tone and said that he is now “in a hurry” to get an immunization. The truth is that, second country in the world in deaths and third in cases, Brazil did not set a vaccination start date, besides that no laboratory has filed a registration request with the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), the regulatory body.
“We are in a hurry to get a safe, effective and quality vaccine, manufactured by properly certified laboratories,” said Bolsonaro, who secured the full independence of Anvisa as a control body. The planning of the Ministry of Health includes receiving 150 million doses in the first half of 2021, including vaccines from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and coronavac developed locally by the Butantan Institute of San Pablo with the Chinese laboratory Sinovac.In this week that for Brazilians is of high season of tourism, crowded beaches were seen throughout the country with tourists participating in crowds. The state of San Pablo, the most affected, is in the red phase but several mayors of the Atlantic coast area have allowed the use of beaches. For its part, Rio de Janeiro, which lives the worst record of hospital occupancy, was the scene of outdoor parties and private gatherings.
