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BRASILIA – O Ministry of Health said on Thursday 18 that he will receive only 30% of the doses of Coronavac wait to be delivered by him Butantan Institute in February. The government expected to receive 9.3 million doses this month. But the folder was informed, by letter, that it will only receive 2.7 million doses than expected.
“At the beginning of this afternoon, we had a forecast of 9.3 million doses of vaccines that would be provided by the Butantan Institute. Unfortunately, we received the news that they will deliver only 30% of those doses. There will only be 2.7 million ”Says the Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Elcio Franco, in a video distributed by the health press office.
Butantan responded to the ministry, saying that the federal government “omits and ignores” facts in its statement. According to the São Paulo institute, Saúde does not mention that “the diplomatic stress caused by the Brazilian government in relation to China caused delays in the shipment of the raw material necessary for the production of the vaccine.” Butantan also criticized the lack of action of Directed by Jair Bolsonaro To solve the problem.
The news comes at a time when the federal government has come under pressure from a shortage of vaccine doses, and governors are demanding agility from the ministry in purchasing vaccines. This Wednesday the 17th, Minister Eduardo Pazuello met with governors and presented a schedule that provides for the delivery even of vaccines that have not yet been contracted, like Sputnik, Covaxin and Moderna.
Franco says that, given the smaller shipment of doses that Butantan will deliver this month, it will be necessary to review the priority groups and define who can be immunized, redoing the planning. The distribution of immunization doses for February, which had already been delivered to the Health Secretaries of the States and the Federal District, will be reviewed.
The reduction in the number of vaccines breaks the expectation of the Ministry of Health to comply with the schedule disclosed yesterday (02/17) by Minister Eduardo Pazuello in a meeting with the head of the Government Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, General Luiz Eduardo Ramos, the president of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Nísia Trindade, the president of the Butantan Institute, Dimas Covas, and governors, ”says the Ministry of Health in a note.
“It is very difficult to plan without having confirmation of what we are going to receive. Everything provided for in the contract. That is why we continue to seek, to mitigate situations like this, contracts with other companies”, completes the executive secretary of the portfolio. .
The ministry also notes that the schedule sent to state administrators this Thursday envisaged the inclusion of new priority groups in the vaccination campaign against covid-19, such as traditional riverside towns and communities, quilombolas, people between 80 and 89 years old and people from 60 to 79 years, which should be reviewed.
“At this time, the Ministry of Health continues with negotiations with the other 6 providers with the aim of increasing the amount of vaccines available to the population,” says the note.
For this Friday 19, Pazuello has scheduled a virtual meeting with the National Front of Mayors (FNP). The meeting must be marked again by a tone of demand due to the lack of vaccine doses, which has already caused the suspension of immunizations in several capitals of the country.
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