After being vaccinated, Lula asked President Bolsonaro to listen to science to face the pandemic | Photo: @LulaOfficial

Brasilia, April 4 (RHC)-- The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, received this Saturday the second dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo, and asked the government listen to science in the fight against the pandemic.

"It only has to do one thing: listen to science, to those who know, and comply with the rules," Lula stressed, without directly alluding to Bolsonaro, who strongly denies the seriousness of the disease that has caused a global health crisis.

The 75-year-old leader of the Workers' Party (PT) was inoculated with the second dose of the Chinese vaccine Sinovac when the country is going through the worst phase of the crisis, reporting 3,000 deaths per day.

The South American giant reports a total of 328,206 deaths due to the pandemic, and 12 million 910,082 total infections have been recorded since the arrival of the virus in 2020.  Thus, Brazil becomes a threat to the region due to its poor management of COVID-19.

Lula, is also a former union leader, posted live images of his vaccination on social networks and stressed that the immunization will increase his protection, but warned that this is no time for relaxation.

"No playing around and doubting this virus that nature imposed on humanity.  The coronavirus is a war of nature against humanity, perhaps due to the irresponsibility that humans have had for so long against the environment."