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This month Brazil will receive the first doses of vaccines from Covax, the alliance created to guarantee the distribution of immunizers throughout the world. The volumes, however, will be lower than what the government had announced and there is still no set date.
On Friday, the column revealed that Brazil will receive 2.99 million doses of the immunizer in March. Between April and May another 6.1 million doses will reach the country. All vaccines are from AstraZeneca.
Last week, the alliance was finally able to begin distributing vaccines to poor countries, with dose shipments to Ghana and other African countries. The beginning with the African continent, however, generated criticism in other continents of the world.
The WHO, however, defends itself by claiming that the first doses are being sent to countries that had their documentation ready for the arrival of the doses.
In the case of Brazil, sources confirm that the country was prepared. But purchases are made directly with suppliers and therefore do not go through managers in Geneva, but through the Pan American Health Organization. Still, the government was informed that 2.99 million doses were reserved for the month of March.
Last month, the organization had already declared that Brazil would receive a total of 10 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines and that this volume will arrive in the country in June, starting with limited deliveries from late February or early March. The remainder of the 42 million dose order would be for the second quarter alone. But that volume would depend on the availability of production.
The data of 9.1 million doses contrasts with the announcement of the Ministry of Health that, during the weekend, said that Brazil would receive between 10 and 14 million doses “from February.”
In total, some 145 countries will receive doses of the alliance. In proportion to the size of their populations, some other countries will receive more than Brazil. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, will have 7 million doses. But with a population that is not even half that of Brazil.
According to the mapping presented, five countries will receive more doses in absolute numbers than Brazil:
India: 97 million doses
Pakistan: 17 million doses
Nigeria: 16 million doses
Indonesia: 13.7 million doses
Bangladesh: 12 million doses
Brazil, when signing the contract with the alliance, chose to make the least possible request in the proposed agreement. The government requested doses only for 10% of its population.
Covax admitted that, in the first half, it will send 250 million doses to the poorest countries, 153 million fewer than it had planned.
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