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Fiocruz delivers the vaccine on February 8 and the government now wants 100 million doses of Coronavac
BRASÍLIA, DF (FOLHAPRESS) – The AstraZeneca vaccine in partnership with the University of Oxford will begin to be delivered to the Ministry of Health as of February 8. The information is from Fiocruz, responsible for production in Brazil. The forecast was released by the president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, this Tuesday (22), at a hearing held by the external commission of the Chamber of Deputies that monitors actions to combat Covid-19. After clashes over the purchase of Coronovac, the pharmaceutical company Sinovac in partnership with the Butantan Institute, the Secretary of Health Surveillance, Arnaldo Correia de Medeiros, said at the same hearing that he is now negotiating the purchase of 100 million doses of the Chinese immunizer. . According to Lima, 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine will be delivered from Fiocruz from February 8 to 12 and another million the following week for the PNI (National Immunization Program), of the Ministry of Health. then there will be 700 thousand daily doses. The president of Fiocruz clarified that there is an effort to try to acquire the vaccines that are produced in other laboratories in the world before this deadline. The intention is to anticipate vaccination. “There will be a meeting with the director of AstraZeneca to see this possibility. The deadline with which we are committed is this, but we are in a national effort to increase protection as soon as possible,” he said. Medeiros said that the Ministry of Health will receive at least 150 million doses in the first half. Of this total, the vaccines Butantan, Pfizer and AstraZeneca are included. Will there be 100.4 million doses of the AstraZeneca immunizer, 46 million Coronavac? Acquiring more doses are in treatments? and 8 million doses from Pfizer. The secretary did not provide a date for the start of vaccination in Brazil. In relation to Coronavac, the promise is to deliver the first batch of doses from January to March 2021. “Yesterday we had a meeting to expand the purchase with the Butantan Institute, the forecast is to acquire 100 million for the 1st semester,” he said. The process signifies a change of position in the relationship between the government of Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) and the government of João Doria (PSDB-SP). The São Paulo government had accused Minister Eduardo Pazuello (Health) if the pasture would buy Coronavac after the public contest. The Health Ministry also plans to purchase 70 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine by 2021. There will be 8 million in the first half. Arnaldo also said that the purchase of 330 million syringes is expected. The intention is to close the contract on January 10. The new version of the Covid-19 vaccination plan was delivered on December 16. It contains the new priority groups to receive immunization and raises the total number of doses under negotiation from 300 million to 350 million, but avoids giving dates for the start of the campaign and detailing the schedule for applying the doses. With 110 pages, the document cites in some sections the forecast that immunization will occur from the first quarter of 2021. This is the second version of the national immunization plan. On December 12, a draft bill had already been sent to the STF (Supreme Federal Court), without, however, establishing more precise dates or forecasts for the start of vaccination. The Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, appeared by surprise at a last minute meeting held by the External Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, which monitors actions to combat Covid-19. According to people heard by Folha, the meeting was called by the government base in the Chamber. In the latest statement on the start of vaccination, Pazuello said that the vaccination of the population would begin in February. This time, he said he would start worst-case in February. “Our forecast, as always, at the end of January at best, going through mid-February, at the end of February at worst. We are going strong to have vaccine of various shades and deliver it as soon as possible, “he said. The Minister of Health, however, has already made other statements saying that vaccination could begin in December of this year or in January or March 2021. The plan also addresses the priority groups that will receive the first doses of the vaccine. They are education workers (and not just teachers), quilombola and riverine populations, street people, people with severe disabilities, public transport workers, road freight carriers and the underprivileged population. The list also includes health workers, the elderly, indigenous people and people with comorbidities (such as diabetes, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, among others), teachers and members of the security and rescue forces, groups that were already on the list. from the previous version. The government predicts that the first phases would include 51 million people and 108 million doses, but the number is equivalent to only a third of the public needed to stop the circulation of the virus in Brazil. According to the plan, to maintain the contagion, Brazil needs to immunize 70% of its population. This is equivalent to 148 million of the 212 million inhabitants of the country.
