RIO DE JANEIRO – Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Brazil to protest against the government of President Jair Bolsonaro and its handling of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
The protests were triggered by recent allegations of corruption involving the purchase of vaccines by the health ministry.
Last month, the number of COVID-19 deaths in Brazil passed 500,000.
It is the second-highest death toll in the world after the United States.
Late on Friday, a Supreme Court judge approved a request by the prosecutor general to open an investigation into Bolsonaro’s role in the scandal.
Bolsonaro has been accused by a whistleblower in the ministry of failing to take action when warned three months ago that senior officials have agreed to take bribes to purchase overpriced doses of an Indian-made vaccine, Covaxin.(BBC)
