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Brazil set to lose its third health minister amid pandemic as Covid death toll rises
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 15, 2021 08:42pm |
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| Author | Tom Phillips |
| News Date | Monday, March 15, 2021 10:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Brazilian health minister, Eduardo Pazuello, is set to be sacked after an inglorious 10-month tenure during which more than 260,000 Brazilians have been killed by a coronavirus outbreak that his government stands accused of catastrophically mismanaging.
When the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, named the army general his interim health minister on 16 May last year, nearly 15,000 Brazilians had died of Covid-19. Ten months later, the death toll has risen to almost 280,000 and South America’s largest nation has been thrust into the most deadly chapter of its epidemic.
Pazuello, whose dismal performance earned him the nickname Pesadello (Nightmare), was Bolsonaro’s third health minister of the crisis, after two predecessors walked out over disagreements about the president’s stance towards Covid-19. From the outset, Bolsonaro has trivialized the disease, which both he and Pazuello caught, as a “little flu” and torpedoed efforts to contain it through social distancing, lockdowns or mass vaccination.
Pazuello, a 58-year-old with no public health background, had made clear that the person calling the shots in the health ministry was Bolsonaro, not him. “It’s simple: one gives the orders and the other obeys,” he said of his relationship with the president last October after Bolsonaro after overruled his attempt to buy 46m shots of the Chinese-produced vaccine CoronaVac. |
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