Brazil's Bolsonaro knocks vaccinating children, criticizes health regulator

FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a protective face mask with an image of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro during a protest against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine passports and obligatory vaccinations for children, organised by Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia, Brazil, January 4, 2022. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) -President Jair Bolsonaro criticized Brazil's health regulator Anvisa on Thursday for authorizing the vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 years against COVID-19, one day after his health minister unveiled plans to inoculate that age group.

Vaccine skeptic Bolsonaro said in a radio interview that he had not heard of children dying of COVID-19 and repeated that his daughter Laura, 11, would not be vaccinated.