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The Ministry of Health reported today (9) that it closed an agreement with the Butantan Institute, in São Paulo, to distribute vaccines against the new coronavirus exclusively through the SUS (Unified Health System) to all states, simultaneously.
The folder reported that the free vaccination campaign should begin “as soon as the immunizers receive authorization from Anvisa.”
Yesterday, Butantan asked Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) to apply doses of CoronaVac, developed in collaboration with the Chinese laboratory Sinovac. Anvisa is expected to comment on the order within 10 days.
“Thus, Brazilians throughout the country will receive the vaccine simultaneously, within the integrated and tripartite logistics, carried out by the Ministry of Health and the Health Secretariats of the States and Municipalities,” the Ministry of Health said in a note. .
The ministry informed that the doses will be distributed proportionally to the population of the states, which will make the distribution among the municipalities.
Yesterday, the country reached 201,542 deaths from the pandemic. The number of infected people reached 8 million. The data were published yesterday by the press consortium, of which the Twitter It is part of.
No date or dose required yet
Last Thursday (7), the ministry and Butantan signed a contract of R $ 2.7 billion for 46 million doses of CoronaVac that will be distributed between January and April; 8.7 million will be shipped through January 31. The agreement also foresees the possibility that the government acquires another 54 million doses, which would give 100 million by the end of the year.
In addition to CoronaVac, Fiocruz also requested the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine emergency use registration this week for an additional 2 million doses. If both are approved, the ministry would have at least 10.7 million doses available by the end of the month.
That’s nearly 100 million doses less than the initial 108 million doses estimated by the government in the first phase of the national campaign in its immunization plan unveiled in December. Although it spoke of simultaneous and proportional distribution, the ministry did not set dates either.
It remains to be seen whether or not the strategy may interfere with the state vaccination plan in São Paulo, scheduled for January 25 with CoronaVac itself. In a conference yesterday, the executive coordinator of the state Contingency Center, John Gabbardo said the date could be brought forward amid the national plan.
“If the national program begins on January 20, obviously the state program will also be brought forward. It is what we want. What may not happen is that if the national program decides to postpone the vaccination start date, São Paulo will not be He will render to start the vaccination on January 25, ”Gabbardo commented.
The Ministry of Health reported that in the next few days a meeting should be held between the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, and representatives of Conass (National Councils of State Secretaries) and Conasems (National Council of Municipal Health Secretaries) to detail the next Steps. logistics and calendar of campaigns.
The special advisers of the Ministry of Health participated in yesterday’s meeting in São Paulo, Djoser Hardmann me Ayrton Rattlesnake; the coordinator of PNI (National Immunization Program), Francieli Fantastic; the São Paulo superintendent of the Ministry of Health, José Carlos Paludeto; in addition to the president and director of the Butantan Institute, Dimas Covas and Cíntia Retz, respectively. The coordinator of the National Governors Forum, Wellington Dias (PT-Piauí) also participated in the meeting by videoconference.
