Doria says the first batch of Coronavac should be delivered to Butantan this fifth | Brazil

The previous forecast was to arrive in São Paulo on Friday 20, but the Butantan Institute confirmed to the Value, that delivery can really anticipate. “And the Butantan vaccine, Coronavac, arrives now, this Thursday, the first batch of vaccines has arrived. It will come in batches, ready from the Sinovac laboratory, and then we will produce it here, in Butantan itself, for Brazilians from São Paulo and Brazilians from all over the country, if the Ministry of Health understands, as it should be, that the vaccine is for everyone. . In fact, this is our defense, ”Doria said in the interview.

Butantan expects to have 46 million doses of the immunizer, of which 6 million will come from China in the form of a finished product and 40 million will be produced in São Paulo, with raw materials to be transferred. In the batch that arrives this week, 120,000 ready vaccines are expected, Butantan confirmed to the Value. According to Doria, the vaccine is in the final phase of testing, so the results are sent to the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).

“We have the last phase of the investigation, the last and the last. We are probably in the last two or three weeks of this final phase of the investigation to send the results to Anvisa. We are strictly following the international vaccine testing protocol and it is also the Anvisa protocol, ”he told Rádio Jornal.