Duque de Caxias

Residents waded through waist-high water Monday to navigate streets in Duque de Caxias.

“We are completely abandoned,” Duque de Caxias resident Eliana Vieira Krauss, 54, charged.

The mayor of Duque de Caxias, a working-class suburb of Rio de Janeiro, announced last week that anyone over the age of 60 was eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine.

The mayor of Duque de Caxias, a fierce supporter of Bolsonaro, waded through crowds of constituents waiting in vain for a vaccine — hugging people, mask dangling beneath his chin.

“We saw the need, the parents requested it; they were going back to the labor market,” said Maria Agostinho, 55, who directs the Happy Little Bear, a daycare, nursery school and pre-school in Duque de Caxias.