The Ministry of Health announced this Thursday (27) that it will begin a national vaccination campaign against Covid-19 on February 27.
The federal government will also run an advertising campaign to increase the population’s confidence in vaccination.
In the first phase, the plan is to reinforce Covid vaccination with doses of Pfizer’s bivalent immunizer for priority groups. This model is an immunizer update that uses the original strains of Sars-CoV-2 and the BA.1 omicron variant.
The government also wants to increase vaccination coverage for other groups, from 12 years old, with monovalent doses.
Vaccination of the priority group with a bivalent dose will be divided into 4 phases.
In the first phase, people aged 70 years or older, who live in long-term institutions, indigenous communities, riverside communities and quilombolas will be immunized.
Then people from 60 to 69 years old. Then, pregnant and puerperal women.
In the last phase of the first stage, health professionals. The goal is to vaccinate 90% of the target audience.
The idea is to boost with the bivalent dose for those who received at least two applications of the monovalent vaccine.
The government also wants to reinforce the immunization of children. As of February, 8.5 million doses of Pfizer must be distributed for 6 months to 4 years, and 9.5 million for the group of 5 to 11 years.
Health also bought 2.6 million doses of Coronavac, which can be used in children. That was the entire inventory at the Butantan Institute.
Director of the Department of Immunization and Vaccine-preventable Diseases of the Ministry of Health, physician Eder Gatti said that the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) found zero stocks of vaccines for children.
He also stated that 370 thousand doses of AstraZeneca were incinerated in December.
He said that the population’s confidence in vaccines needs to be regained, and that there has been ′′ denialist behavior ′′ from authorities in recent years.
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