Brazil’s Bolsonaro linked to alleged corruption in Covid vaccine buying
The Peninsula
A government-allied lawmaker dragged President Jair Bolsonaro into a scandal of alleged corruption in the purchase of a Covid-19 vaccine for Brazil’s immunization campaign, saying he personally warned the president about irregularities.
Lower house representative Luis Miranda, speaking late Friday at a congressional committee probing Bolsonaro’s handling of the pandemic, said he held a meeting with the president in March where he described a series or irregularities in the purchase of the Covaxin vaccine, produced by India’s Bharat Biotech International Ltd. During the conversation, as described by Miranda, Bolsonaro blamed his leader in the lower house, Ricardo Barros, for meddling in the health ministry, but didn’t stop the purchase. The ministry signed a contract to purchase 20 million doses for 1.6 billion reais ($325 million), although no shots have been delivered yet.More Related News