RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Senate on Tuesday, October 5, approved the creation of a memorial to honor the victims of Covid-19 in Brazil.
According to the passed bill, the memorial should be erected outside the Senate, in remembrance of all Brazilians who lost their lives to the disease, which has killed millions of people worldwide.
Authored by senator Renan Calheiros with senator Omar Aziz as rapporteur, the bill is pending enactment. Aziz is the chairman and Renan the rapporteur of the parliamentary investigation committee (Covid CPI) analyzing the policies adopted by the federal government to fight the pandemic.
According to Aziz, the memorial to be built will have as its main purpose to create a historical record of what occurred in Brazil since the start of the pandemic, in March 2020, to the present day.
In reading the report, Aziz stressed the work of the Covid CPI, stating that the committee “showed that many of the deaths caused by the pandemic could have been prevented had the government simply acted in accordance with scientific recommendations.”