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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has publicly announced he will never get immunized against COVID-19 after previously promising that he would get the shot once everyone else in the country had done so.
Bolsonaro confirmed his stance during Tuesday night's appearance on Brazilian radio station Jovem Pan.
'With regard to the vaccine, I decided not to take the vaccine anymore,' the far-right leader said. 'I'm seeing new studies, I have mine, my immunization is up there.'
The 66-year-old, who was infected with the virus in July 2020, indicated that his immunoglobulin G count, the most common antibody in blood circulation, was at '991.'
'What am I going to get a vaccine for? I would be the same thing that you play 10 reais ($1.80) in the lottery to win 2 reais ($0.36). That's out of place.'
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told Jovem Pan radio on Tuesday night that he will no longer get the COVID-19 vaccine. The far-right leader had said in August that he would be the last person in line to get immunized
A health worker administers a dose of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine on a male patient in Rio de Janeiro on July 10. As of Sunday, at least 99.6 million people, or 46.9 percent of Brazil's population, had been fully vaccinated
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