The mayor of New York asked Jair Bolsonaro’s wife to send her husband to get vaccinated for Covid-19

The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, asked Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, to “send her husband to get vaccinated” for COVID-19, after being made public that she took advantage of her trip to the city on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly to immunize herself for the disease.

“Send your husband to get vaccinated too so he can stop being a danger to others”, De Blasio said through his account on the social network Twitter, in a message in which he has echoed the news regarding the immunization of Michelle Bolsonaro.

It is not the first time that De Blasio criticizes the Brazilian president for attending the UN General Assembly without having been vaccinated for COVID-19.

“If you don’t want to be vaccinated, you don’t even need to come,” he said, stressing that it is necessary to “send a message to all world leaders, especially Bolsonaro: if you intend to come here (to New York) you need to be vaccinated.”

Bolsonaro was the only G20 leader who went to the UN who said publicly that he had not been vaccinated for COVID-19. He was able to attend the United Nations event, although he was unable to enter New York interiors, where the presentation of a vaccination pass is required.

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, revealed this last week that his wife was vaccinated for covid-19 in the United States and received a wave of criticism from those who considered that attitude as a “contempt” for the country’s public health.

“Taking a vaccine is a personal decision. My wife (Michelle Bolsonaro), for example, decided to take it in the United States. I did not take it,” declared the leader of the extreme right in an interview published this Friday by the magazine Look.

Although Bolsonaro did not clarify it, it is presumed that his wife applied the vaccine this week, when she was part of the official Brazilian delegation that attended the UN General Assembly and that he returned without the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, who remained in New York in quarantine, after testing positive for covid-19.

In his speech to the UN, Bolsonaro exposed last Tuesday his denial for covid-19, defended the use of drugs of doubtful efficacy to treat it and opposed the so-called “health passport”.

The fact that Michelle Bolsonaro was vaccinated in New York generated a wave of outrage in political circles, which was expressed above all in a Senate commission investigating possible irregularities committed by the Government in the face of a pandemic that has killed almost 593,000 Brazilians and is not yet under control.

“That scene of the first lady getting vaccinated in the United States is unfortunate, it devalues ​​the health authorities, devalues ​​a conquest of the country that is already more than 30 years old, like the National Immunization Program”, declared Senator Randolfe Rodrigues, vice president of the commission.