04/08/2021 14:04
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Updated 04/08/2021 14:10
The Ministry of Health of
Brazil
revealed this week what was so far a secret: he broke the confidentiality clause and published on the
Internet the contract signed with the US pharmaceutical Pfizer to purchase vaccines coronavirus.
As revealed by the newspaper
O Globo
, the contract indicates that each dose of the vaccine costs 10 dollars, and the agreement is for the purchase of 100 million doses, that is,
one billion dollars.
The deal, according to the news site,
O Tempo
, predicted that "confidential information" such as the delivery schedule and the value of the doses ($ 10 each)
could not be disclosed for the next ten years
.
The information was anticipated by CBN radio.
The rules in the text say that the company could terminate the contract "immediately" if the terms of the agreement were violated and not remedied within 30 days,
O Tempo
reported
.
And that if it were for a just cause, the Brazilian government
would have to pay "the full price of all the doses contracted
, minus the amounts already paid to Pfizer."
As it transpired, Brazil signed a contract for the purchase of 100 million doses of Pfizer's vaccine against Covid.
Photo: AFP
Pfizer declined to comment on the leak
.
The Health Ministry stated that it withdrew the document from the site based on the confidentiality clause.
But the media had access to an email that was sent from a Pfizer email on Tuesday to an official.
The company then asked him to delete that text from a platform created by him on the Internet.
According to the newspaper
Folha de Sao Paulo
, the government of Jair Bolsonaro rejected last year at least three Pfizer proposals that provided for the delivery of 70 million doses of vaccines until December of this year.
Of that total, 3 million were scheduled until February.
As O Globo recalled, the contract was the target of criticism from the government and Bolsonaro himself, due to
clauses considered abusive
.
The president even said that he would release the document to justify the fact that the Executive has not yet purchased the vaccines from the US laboratory.
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