Social movements, trade unions, and human rights activists in Brazil demonstrated to condemn the recent corruption scandal linking President Jair Bolsonaro with the purchase at inflated prices of Indian-produced Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine.
Social movements, trade unions, and human rights activists in Brazil protested President Jair Bolsonaro for the purchase at inflated prices of Indian-produced Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine.
The protests supported the impeachment petition submitted by unions, left political parties and social organizations to the Lower House on Wednesday.
The nationwide mobilizations came after the Senate Commission of Inquiry on the Pandemic (CPI) ruled that Bolsonaro knew about the overbilling in the purchase of Covaxin doses.
Besides the approval of an emergency aid payment to people in vulnerable situations, demonstrators demanded to speed up the pace of vaccinations.
Local outlet Folha de Sao Paulo unveiled that businessman Luiz Dominguetti had confirmed a bribe offer to raise the cost of 400 million AstraZeneca vaccines by one dollar per dose.
