• #Mining in Brazil has increased 36% in 2020 compared to 2019, generating 72.2 billion reals in taxes.
• #Brazil has made official an agreement in the #WTO to allow Brazilian companies to compete for bidding contracts in 48 countries. #worldtradeorganization
• The mayor of #Niterói, State of #RiodeJaneiro, is doing what the “#conspiracytheorists” predicted it would start happening. #AxelGrael signed a law bill that mandates the #COVID19 #vaccination to all citizens, and whoever refuses to take it, will be fined for 'serious sanitary offense' and might be charged criminally and might lose the right to get any pandemic help from City Hall, which includes money and food aid. Anyone who wants to get the help must show vaccination proof. The author of the law is from the far left party #PSOL. Axel is brother of #IrmãosGrael (#Graelbrothers), #LarsGrael and #TorbenGrael, Olympic medalists in sailing. #coronavirus #chinesevirus #chinavirus #grael #olympics
• The gov't is considering sending out three more relief checks due to the #pandemic. This time, it should be directed to people who are informal workers and are not covered by the Bolsa Família ('Family Check, a welfare program), and the amount of each check should be between 200 and 300 reals. It should be called BIP, or Bônus de Inclusão Produtiva ('Productive Inclusion Bonus').

• The mayor of #Mirandópolis, #ÉvertonSodaro, stood up against a team of health professionals last night who were trying to make sure no businesses would stay open after 8pm. They were following #SãoPaulo Governor #Dória's #lockdown measures orders. The mayor made a dramatic appeal for the team to think about the jobs and businesses that are being lost after almost a year of tough restrictions, pointed out he and they have kept receiving their salaries throughout the lockdown period while regular citizens have not, he said that he has constantly been receiving people at #CityHall asking when the restrictions were going to loosen, some showing desperation, bravely urged them not to carry out illegal orders, and said that Mirandópolis has a mayor. This city has about 30 thousand inhabitants and only two #COVID19 cases. #JoãoDória #coronavirus #virusfromchina #chinavirus #chinesevirus #ccpvirus

The #STF (Brazilian #SupremeCourt) ruled that states can buy vaccines without the approval of the #ANVISA ('Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária,' or National Health Regulatory Agency), which is the Department of Health's branch responsible for giving the approval of safe use of any product or service that's related to health, produced in #Brazil or imported. Under this rule, the approval of a vaccine by the health agency of the country of origin will be enough.

Among the governors in favor of bypassing the gov't's agency, #SãoPaulo's Governor #JoãoDória has been the most vocal, prompting President #Bolsonaro to repeatedly say that no vaccination will be sold in Brazil without ANVISA's approval. The decision of the STF is another humiliation for Bolsonaro if he doesn't have any card under his sleeve.

It's important to note that not a single vaccine company from any country has ever asked ANVISA for authorization so far, which is suspicious.

And today the STF voted unanimously in favor of compulsory vaccination. One more humiliation for the president (again, if he doesn't have any card unde his sleeve) who publicly and repeatedly said that no Brazilian would be forced to take the vaccine.

Some judges said that nobody will be forced to take it if it means people going through any kind of embarrassment or humiliation, but there's a caveat. Private and public institutions and businesses will be allowed to demand that their employees, clients, and customers prove that they are vaccinated. For instance, an airline can demand passengers to show this proof in order to board the plane or buy a ticket, and a school can demand it in order to accept an enrollment.

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