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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appointed a new Health Minister on Monday, the fourth in a pandemic so far.

Doctor

Marcelo Queiroga,

until now president of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, will replace Army General

Eduardo Pazuello,

who had been in office since May last year.

The change comes

at the worst moment of the pandemic in Brazil,

with an average of more than 2,000 deaths a day in recent weeks.

The country is already close to 280,000 deaths from covid-19 and most states are on the verge of collapse.

The succession is due to the increasing pressures on Minister Pazuello, highly questioned by the disorganization of the vaccination campaign and the shortage of immunizers, but also by his alleged omission in the crisis of lack of oxygen that

led to chaos in the city from

Manaus

in January.

There are indications that the ministry knew the city was on the brink of collapse and did nothing to prevent it.

Pazuello faces an investigation in the Supreme Court and in a parliamentary commission.

Speaking of his departure, Bolsonaro trusted that his successor will continue the good work done so far.

Pazuello's great virtue was not questioning the president.

"One commands and the other obeys," he once

said, boasting of military discipline.

Ministers who dared to challenge the president's denialist vision ended up out of government.

The doctor

Luiz Henrique Mandetta

was struck down in the first months of the pandemic for defending the need to impose restrictions on the population to stop the spread of the virus.

His successor,

Nelson Teich,

lasted just a few weeks.

He had to endure enormous pressure for the Health Ministry to prescribe the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, drugs without proven efficacy against COVID-19, but for which Bolsonaro was obsessed.

After the months of blind loyalty to Pazuello, Bolsonaro

tested

cardiologist

Ludhmila Hajjar,

with a technical profile and the favorite of sectors of the moderate right that support the government.

Bolsonaro summoned Hajjar in Brasilia on Sunday, but the meeting was a disaster.

There was a frontal clash of visions.

Speaking to the press on Monday, the frustrated candidate said there was "no technical convergence" between the two and that she rejected the invitation.

He assured that Brazil has

a "quite gloomy" outlook ahead of it.

He also explained that in the last hours he received death threats from Bolsonaro supporters, who even tried to enter his hotel.

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