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The definition of priority groups The vaccination against Covid-19 in Ceará was modified. THE Ministry of Health (Sesa) published, on Thursday (24), a document that includes the inclusion of the street population, public transport workers, road freight carriers and people with disabilities severe permanence among the population that will receive the vaccine first, as soon as it is available in the state.
With the inclusion, the number of doses required for vaccination of priority groups in the State was also recalculated. Before, the estimate was 1.7 million doses. Now, the projection is 2.6 million.
In relation to the groups, previously, Sesa had listed as priorities: health workers, people over 75 years old, people over 60 years old, indigenous people, people with comorbidities, teachers, members of the Security and Rescue forces. , employees of the prison system and population deprived of liberty.
as update of the plan, the division of priority groups is as follows:
1st phase
Health workers: 182,907 people
Over 75 years: 269,964 people
People aged 60 and over living in long-term care facilities: 115,978 people
Indigenous population: 26,903 people
2nd phase
Population between 60 and 74 years: 538,785 people
3rd phase
Population with Comorbidities: 415,155 people
Other phases
Other groups: 1,062,093 people
There is no specific date set for start of vaccine application in the State, but, according to the document “it is estimated that the distribution of doses of the vaccine by the Ministry of Health will occur in a fractional and scheduled manner from January to July 2021.”
The document also indicates that, according to a meeting held in the Ministry of Health on the 21st, “the perspective of the State of Ceará is to initially receive doses of
Astrazeneca / Fiocruz Laboratory “.
Pfizer Vaccine Storage Logistics
It is also established in the operational plan for vaccination against Covid-19 that visits were made to the ultra-refrigerators of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) “for possible storage of the Pfizer vaccine.” The equipment must be kept in rooms provided by the UFC’s clinical research unit and institute of biomedicine.
Despite the State Government’s statement to buy vaccines from various laboratories, until then there was no document with official mention about the acquisition of the vaccine from pharmaceutical company. Sesa points out that there is still no confirmation that Ceará receives this specific vaccine, but that there is “a preparation if the acquisition occurs.”
“The logistics are being adjusted so that the municipalities closest to the centers where these freezers exist can receive the Pfizer vaccine. Two other universities are also being analyzed, as they have these structures. Federal University of Cariri (UFCA) and UFC in Sobral“says the document.
Due to the difficulty of maintaining a homogeneous cold chain throughout the state, for the Pfizer vaccine, the guidance is that it be used in Fortaleza and Metropolitan Region. This is due to the fact that this immunizer requires storage at very low temperatures, unlike the vaccines already considered for Ceará, such as the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory, and that of the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, which will be reproduced in São Paulo by the Institute. Butantan, CoronaVac.
In total, if necessary, a capacity of 500 thousand doses will be made available by January 2021. Then, with the arrival of new equipment, it will be possible to store 1.5 million doses. Most of the freezers have a capacity of 4000 liters ”. , according to an excerpt from the Sesa document.
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