Authorities are examining a vaccine card from the health ministry that has Mr Bolsonaro's records. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BRASILIA - A health ministry record indicates that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a vocal sceptic of Covid-19 vaccines who vowed to never get the jab, may have received one in 2021, the country’s comptroller general’s office said on Friday.
The office said it was examining a vaccine card provided by the health ministry recording the far-right former president’s vaccination, though in a statement it cautioned that the card could have been altered. It said it had sought information about Mr Bolsonaro’s vaccination record from the health ministry following last month’s inauguration of“The record exists, that’s as much as we know,” comptroller general’s office head Vinicius Carvalho said during an interview with CNN Brazil.
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Mr Bolsonaro made repeated public statements minimising the importance of vaccines and said he had not and would not get vaccinated himself.
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