Angry Brazilians dress as reptiles for their Covid jabs to mock Bolsonaro
People are wearing costumes as a protest to the government’s handling of an outbreak that has killed more than 545,000
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 23 Jul 2021 06.00 EDT
Klinger Duarte Rodrigues dressed as an Amazonian water boa to get his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Photograph: Handout
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Fri 23 Jul 2021 06.00 EDT
When Klinger Duarte Rodrigues set off for his coronavirus shot last weekend he did so dressed as a South American snake.
“A sucuri,” he said, using the indigenous name for the Amazonian water boa whose skin he borrowed for his first dose of AstraZeneca.
The outfit – footage of which went immediately viral on social media – was not merely a fashion statement: it was a protest against the Brazilian government’s woeful handling of a Covid outbreak that has killed more than 545,000 citizens, among them Rodrigues’s brother-in-law.
“If the government had been quicker to acquire vaccines, many people would still be with us,” said the environmentalist and internet influencer who attached a placard to his snake costume calling for the impeachment of Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/23/brazil-coronavirus-vaccine-bolsonaro-protest