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Weekly Report - 09 December 2021 (WR-21-49)
BRAZIL: Vaccine passports produce new source of friction
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been widely condemned for his science-denying approach to the coronavirus (Covid-19) since the start of the pandemic in early 2020. The damaging consequences of his denialist discourse and attitude were extensively documented by a senate-led commission of parliamentary inquiry (CPI), which presented its findings in October [WR-21-42]. After the president’s rejection of lockdowns, his promotion of unproven remedies, and his scepticism regarding the vaccine, a new Covid-19 battlefront has opened between Bolsonaro and public health authorities, this time on the issue of vaccine passports.
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