It should come as a surprise to very few people in Brazil: Former Prime Minister Jair Bolsonaro was probably not vaccinated against Corona. Although hundreds of thousands died, Bolsonaro always downplayed the pandemic.
According to current investigations, Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro used a fake vaccination certificate during the corona pandemic. In their investigation on Thursday (local time), Brazilian auditors pointed out discrepancies between Health Ministry documents and Bolsonaro’s vaccination certificate, according to which the ex-president was vaccinated against the coronavirus in São Paulo in July 2022.
The investigation concludes “that this is a fraud of the registration system for vaccinations against Covid-19”. Bolsonaro’s vaccination certificate was “fake”. Nevertheless, auditors recommended closing the investigation “for lack of sufficient evidence.” Accordingly, numerous people could have carried out the forgery.
700,000 Covid deaths in Brazil
Last year, Brazil’s federal police said they had uncovered a fraud system in which a Bolsonaro confidant, with the help of a network in the healthcare system and the government, had obtained fake vaccination certificates for, among others, the ex-president and his daughter.
As president, Bolsonaro attracted a lot of criticism for his handling of the corona pandemic. He had repeatedly tried to downplay the dangers of the corona pandemic, which caused more than 700,000 deaths in Brazil. Back then, Bolsonaro had also stated that he had not been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Source: Stern
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