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The government appealed to the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) against the court’s decision to present a vaccination plan against Covid-19.
TCU’s decision is in August and it gave a deadline for the presentation of the plan until last week. The government appeal, signed by the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation (AGU), is from September and was revealed in a report this Tuesday (24) of the daily “Valor Econômico”.
The TCU ordered the government to detail the planning for the purchase, production and distribution of vaccine doses. He also asked for information on vaccination logistics.
The government did not present the plan and claimed that the TCU’s decision contains an error. According to the appeal, the court should not have listed the Civil House together with the Ministry of Health as one of the bodies that would be in charge of planning vaccination. This assignment, according to the AGU, is exclusive to the ministry.
“It is also true that it is not up to the Civil House to draw up plans or implement the national health policy and government actions for the production and / or acquisition of vaccines, as well as for the immunization of the population in general. And despite the planning. In this regard, it can be said that it will demand the action of various sectoral bodies, which cannot justify, give it a go, interference in the institutional competencies of the Ministry of Health, ”the government stated.
In the appeal, the AGU recognizes the importance of presenting a vaccine plan, but asks the TCU to reform the order. The appeal must be considered in full court in the coming days, and the tendency is for ministers to deny the AGU’s request.
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Pharmacists around the world are already beginning to publish their phase 3 studies of Covid-19 vaccine candidates. The forecast is that the vaccines can be used in the coming months. In Brazil, the last stage is the approval of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).
Until now, the federal government has yet to provide details on vaccination rules and logistics.
Definition of priority group, stock of supplies, training of professionals, transportation and approval of the vaccine are some of the points that must be clarified before application.
The government has already released some general information, but without specifying the main points:
1 – Vaccination start date
The Ministry of Health indicates that vaccination should occur from January 2021. The date is estimated considering that the two vaccines already negotiated (Butantan / Sinovac and AstraZeneca / Oxford) are in advanced stages of development, both in phase 3 Of the tests. , when applied to thousands of volunteers.
2 – Total doses distributed
The Health Ministry said on Tuesday (20) that it is negotiating, in total, the purchase of a total of 186 million doses from different suppliers and that they will be distributed to all states.
3 – Initial audience of the campaign
The ministry says that there are two priority audiences in the future vaccination campaign: the first to be immunized will be those who are part of risk groups and health professionals.
Despite this, the government has not released detailed information on the profiles of the groups at risk and with what schedule each group will be vaccinated during the next year.
