Brazil Suspends $300M Covaxin Contract as Scandal Becomes Too Hot for Bolsonaro 30/06/2021 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Photo: Twitter/@narendramodi Sao Paulo:In a major blow to Bharat Biotech’s plan to market Covaxin abroad, the Brazilian government on Tuesday suspended its contract to import 20 million doses of the vaccine in a $300-million deal with the Indian company. With the growing scandal around the contract closing in on Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian government is now in a complete damage-control mode to save the president’s skin in a multimillion-dollar case which is keeping this country fixated to TV news.