As announced by Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello a few days ago, Brazil has
started vaccinating its people this week. The vaccines that will be given to
Brazilian people are the result of a partnership between the Chinese company
Sinovach Biotech and the Brazilian institute Butantan (Coronavac) and also
between Oxford and the Brazilian Foundation Fiocruz (Oxford-Astrazeneca). The
beginning of the vaccination is a Relief to the country which has already lost
more than 210,000 people to the virus and that is the second most infected in
the world - coming in second only to the USA. The federal government has been
reckelessly dealing with the coronavirus situation, which placed us behind the
schedule of the rest of world and caused doubts about when the vaccination would
effectively begin; because of that, the beginning of the vaccination was even
more celebrated. The first people to be vaccinated will be the elderly
population, the indigenous population and the health care professionals who work
directly with the ill. It will take a little longer, but within a few months the
majority of the population will be vaccinated and then we'll be ready to
bring an end to this nightmare.