Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced a new delay in the logistic survives of two million doses of Coronavirus vaccines from the AstraZeneca laboratory, in India, sparking protests in several cities, calling for his resignation.
"We succeeded in providing two million doses, and today, vaccination began in India, which is a country with a population of one billion people, so it was delayed here by a day or two until people started vaccinating there," Bolsonaro told the Brazilian TV Bandeirants.
Bolsonaro added that the Indian operation had been delayed and that there had also been political pressure.
India also began its own domestic vaccination campaign on Saturday, the world's largest, according to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with some 300 million people due to be inoculated by July.
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