Brazil’s federal police on Wednesday raided former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home in Brasilia as part of a probe into a group suspected of adding false vaccine data into the government’s COVID-19 database, two sources familiar with the matter said. Two of Bolsonaro’s closest aides, Mauro Cid and Max Guilherme, have been arrested in the same operation, the sources added. A spokesman and a lawyer for Bolsonaro did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Police said the “false data” were allegedly added to the database between November 2021 and December 2022, when Bolsonaro was president, to alter immunization statuses of still unnamed people. Bolsonaro while in office was a vocal skeptic of COVID-19 vaccines who vowed to never get the jab.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald May 03, 2023 12:32 UTC