BRASILIA — Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, who said he won’t take any COVID-19 shot, on Thursday vowed to quickly inoculate all Brazilians, tempering his tone after his support fell due to a patchy vaccine rollout and a brutal second wave of infections.
Bolsonaro has been widely criticized for his handling of the pandemic. Critics said the slow vaccine rollout is the latest in a long line of fumblings that have blighted Brazil with the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world after the United States.
But on Thursday, the president sought to defend his government’s vaccine procurement.
“Europe and some countries in South America don’t have vaccines. And we know t…
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