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Brazil Suspends Syringe Purchase Effort As Vaccination Lags He also said states and municipalities possess enough stock to handle the first stage of the forthcoming immunization campaign “because the amount of vaccines at first is not big.” The government posted its tender for 331 million syringes on Dec. 16, but received bids for only 8 million by the Dec. 29 deadline, apparently because companies were demanding a higher price than the government-set maximum. AD AD After meeting with Brazil’s three main syringe producers, Health Ministry officials initially said they would publish a new tender, seeking more offers. Bolsonaro’s comments on Wednesday seemed to halt such efforts. Some health experts said the government should have acted far sooner to secure syringes for the nation of some 210 million people. Ethel Maciel, an epidemiologist at the Federal University of Espirito Santo who at one point advised the Health Ministry on its immunization plan, said she was frightened when she found out in a December meeting that officials had not yet signed a contract for syringes. “We risked having a vaccine, but no syringes,” Maciel said. “If they had started planning back in July, they wouldn’t have this problem with prices,” she said. AD A spokesperson for the Brazilian Medical Devices Manufacturers’ Association, which represents the three main syringe producers, said the suspension of the tender came as a surprise. “We learned about it in the media,” the person told The Associated Press, declining to be named for lack of authorization to speak publicly. AD Deaths and detected infections of the new coronavirus have been surging in the nation, adding pressure on the government to start administering shots. While other countries in the region have started vaccinations, Brazil’s health regulator hasn’t yet approved any vaccines, and the Health Ministry hasn’t provided a definite rollout date for its program. Officials in Brazil’s most populous state, Sao Paulo, say they plan to start vaccinations on Jan. 25 if regulators approve the Chinese-developed CoronaVac shot they have contracted for, and state officials say they have 71 million needles stocked. AD For its part, the federal government expects to receive 2 million of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University shots this month and could start vaccinations in February. Federal officials this week requisitioned 30 million syringes from the three medical device producers, though details have not yet been worked out, according to the spokesperson for the Brazilian Medical Devices Manufacturers’ Association. AD The Economy Ministry on Wednesday also temporarily scrapped import taxes on syringes in order to facilitate the fight against COVID-19. “Eliminating taxes doesn’t mean it will be available on the market,” said Simplício Araújo, secretary of industry, commerce and energy in the state of Maranhao. AD That northeastern state is among several that have been worried about the federal response and are working either together or individually to acquire supplies of their own. “We are building a Plan B,” Araújo told The Associated Press. He said he had already been hunting for syringes for his state but declined to say if he had found any. Earlier in the pandemic, Araújo had used his Chinese contacts to orchestrate a complex scheme to bring ventilators in a commercial freighter via Ethiopia, bypassing slow-moving federal bureaucracy. AD “The government does not understand what the country and the world are experiencing,” Araújo said. “The faster we prepare, the more chances we will have to sign a contract for a vaccine and for syringes.” AD That disappointment was echoed by the state’s governor, Flávio Dino, a frequent critic of the president’s handling of the pandemic. “Once again, the wrong decision,” said Dino in a Twitter post reacting to Wednesday’s announcement. Several states are setting records for new COVID-19 cases, though the nation as a whole last week reported an average 713 deaths per day, down from a peak of more than 1,000 daily deaths sustained for months in 2020. Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Bolsonaro Blasts Brazil's Syringe Makers Over Soaring Prices BRASILIA (Reuters) -President Jair Bolsonaro accused syringe makers on Wednesday of pushing up their prices after the government failed to buy hundreds of millions of syringes via auction for its COVID-19 vaccination drive, leading it to requisition surplus supplies. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro looks on during the COVID-19 Clinical Study Result Announcement Ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado “Prices soared after the Health Ministry expressed an interest in buying syringes,” Bolsonaro wrote on social media, adding that the government had suspended buying until prices return to normal. Brazil’s three main syringe manufacturers met with Bolsonaro on Tuesday and agreed that each would supply 10 million, along with needles to cover the initial stages of the country’s planned vaccinations. “It was a requisition order and the companies have to obey it. This was almost a confiscation, but the government will pay,” said Paulo Henrique Fraccaro, head of Brazil’s medical supplies and equipment industry lobby group ABIMO. Fraccaro said the government decided to requisition syringe supplies after it failed to draw bids last week at an electronic auction session. It had sought to buy 331 million syringes but purchased just 8 million, or 2.5% of its target, after it set reference prices that were below companies’ bids. The Health Ministry offered 13 centavos (.13 reais) per syringe in its Nov. 29 tender, but most companies were asking for 22-48 centavos (.22-.48 reais), depending on the characteristics, Fraccaro said. While prices for the requisitioned syringes had not been agreed, Fraccaro said the government planned to open a second tender in one or two weeks with prices “adjusted” to today’s manufacturing reality. Brazil has the worst COVID-19 death toll outside the United States, but has lagged neighbors Chile and Argentina in starting inoculations against the new coronavirus. Bolsonaro wrote that Brazil’s states and municipalities have enough supplies to begin vaccinations, which are expected to start by the end of the month. In a parallel move, Brazil’s trade authority Camex slashed from 16% to zero the import tax on syringe and needle products. The exemption extends until June 30. Camex also said it had suspended anti-dumping procedures against syringes imported from China, a day after extending for six more months a zero import tax provision for 298 medical products essential in the fight against COVID-19. ($1=5.32 reais) Reporting by Eduardo Simões; Writing by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Mark Heinrich Brazil's Services Sector Expands In Dec For 4th Month, But Pandemic Fears Linger - IHS Markit BRASILIA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Brazil’s services sector expanded in December for a fourth straight month and at a slightly faster pace than the month before, a purchasing managers’ survey showed on Wednesday, although underlying data painted a more mixed picture. Services have lagged manufacturing and industry in the rebound from the COVID-19 crisis but have recently shown signs that the bounceback is underway, a view strengthened by hopes a vaccine will soon be available. IHS Markit’s headline Brazil services PMI rose to 51.1 from 50.9 in November. It was the fourth consecutive reading above 50.0, the threshold that separates expansion from contraction. The slight rise in services accompanied the second consecutive manufacturing PMI decline, however, meaning the composite PMI encompassing both sectors slipped to 53.5 in December from 53.8 in November, IHS Markit said. That marked the fifth straight month that business activity in Brazil’s private sector has grown, but COVID-19 worries still linger. “While the latest data provide some welcome reassurance that the service economy continues to show resilience to the pandemic, the sustainability of the recovery comes into question when we look at the jobs data and anecdotal evidence from survey participants,” said Pollyanna De Lima, economics associate director at IHS Markit. “The rise in infections before vaccines become widely available could bring in new restrictions and cut short the recovery,” she said. Within services the employment index fell to 49.3 from 51.3, as firms went back to shedding jobs. That pulled the composite employment index across manufacturing and services down to 50.4 from a nine-year high of 52.6. Inflationary pressures continued to build, with the services sector input prices index rising to 66.5, the highest in four and a half years. The prices charged index rose to a one-year high of 53.4 from 51.3 in November, IHS Markit said. The composite future output index rose to 75.3 from 70.2, marking its highest level since February last year just before the pandemic struck. (Reporting by Jamie McGeever Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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