Rosa Weber sends to the Attorney General's Office a lawsuit against Bolsonaro and Queiroga for delays in vaccinating children.
The government preferred to hold a public consultation on the matter, instead of including children in the Covid vaccination plan after receiving authorization from Anvisa (Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency).
From Conjur - The Attorney General's Office is expected to issue a statement regarding a criminal complaint for malfeasance against President Jair Bolsonaro and Health Minister Marcelo Queiroz for failing to include children in the Covid vaccination plan even after authorization from the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa). Instead, the government decided to hold a public consultation on the matter.
The criminal complaint was filed by Senator Alessandro Vieira (Cidadania-SE), Representative Tabata Amaral (PSB-SP), and the Secretary of Education of Rio de Janeiro, Renan Carneiro, last December. "I order that the case files be made available to the Attorney General's Office, which is responsible for forming the opinion on the crime in criminal proceedings under the jurisdiction of this Supreme Court, for its opinion within the regulatory timeframe," writes Justice Rosa Weber of the Supreme Federal Court, rapporteur of the case.
In the lawsuit, the two parliamentarians and the secretary request that the probable commission of the crime of prevarication, as defined in article 319 of the Penal Code, be considered, given the refusal to include children aged five to eleven years in the target audience for Covid-19 vaccination.
According to the petition, shortly after Anvisa (the Brazilian health regulatory agency) announced that it had authorized childhood immunization, President Jair Bolsonaro announced, in his weekly live broadcast on social media, that he would request and make public the names of the regulatory agency technicians responsible for the authorization. Furthermore, the president stated that vaccination would depend on parental authorization, and the government subsequently announced a public hearing on the subject.