Minas Gerais Government Announces Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine – General

The Secretary of State for Health of Minas Gerais (SES-MG) announced, this Tuesday (1st), the development of a contingency plan for immunization against COVID-19. According to the head of the portfolio, Carlos Eduardo Amaral, the idea is that the protocol guides the municipalities in the vaccination process of the mining population, as soon as the immunizer is available on the market.

“We are preparing ourselves so that, when this vaccine arrives, we will have the conditions to supply the supplies, distribute the vaccine properly and even do the post-vaccine monitoring,” Amaral said in a virtual press conference broadcast this afternoon.

According to SES-MG, the actions planned in planning They were designed in anticipation of a possible worldwide race for the acquisition of equipment and materials necessary for the storage of doses and application of the immunobiological agent when it is approved. The move should cause an increase in the prices of the items and the lack of them in the market.

“The objective of the plan is to organize our actions and immunization strategies, addressing the pre-campaign, campaign and post-campaign phases. The focus, first, is the pre-campaign phase, in which we are going to prepare the Sade de Minas network for what can be considered the largest vaccination on the planet, ”said Amaral.

The official estimates that, in six months, the entire health network in Minas Gerais will be structured to serve the population.

Supplies and centers

According to information from SES-MG, the state plan foresees the purchase of syringes, reflectors and cooling chambers for regional and municipalities. Devices are needed when storage vaccinations Another action cited by the government is the quotation for the rental of continents for deposit of immunizations. The project also includes the training of professionals and the diagnosis of regional offices.

For the application of doses, the secretariat announced the creation of 15 Reference Centers in Special Immunobiological (Crie) and Post-Vaccination Adverse Events Surveillance throughout the state. Currently, the service is only available in Belo Horizonte and Juiz de Fora, in the Zona da Mata Mineira. The sites offer vaccines, immunoglobulins and sera indicated in special situations, for example, people with health problems who require vaccines not covered by the National Immunization Program.

A kind of “Matrix” of Crie should be implemented in the Eduardo de Menezes Hospital, as a reference for the other states.

The program also establishes that the demand for vaccines against new coronavirus should be estimated with a focus on priority groups, that is: health professionals, the elderly and patients who have comorbidities that make them more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Soon, at 7:00 p.m., more details of the plan will be released live on Instagram to SES-MG.

Indicators

At the virtual press conference, Sade’s secretary reaffirmed the trend to slow the progress of the pandemic in Minas. According to the director, Rt – term that defines the average through virus per infected – it was 0.92 this Monday (31). The number falls within the limit considered ideal by the infectologists, from at 1.00.

Or what or coronavrus

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause respiratory infections. The new coronavirus agent (COVID-19) was discovered in December 2019 in China. The disease can cause infections with symptoms initially similar to those of a cold or mild flu, but with the risk of worsening, leading to death.
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Coronavirus transmission usually occurs through the air or through personal contact with contaminated secretions, such as saliva droplets, sneezing, coughing, phlegm, close personal contact, such as touching or shaking hands, contact with contaminated objects or surfaces, followed by contact with mouth, nose or eyes.

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