The Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, said that until February 15, the ministry will send sufficient doses to the states to vaccinate all children aged 5 to 11 years with the first dose against Covid-19.
“We are working hard to bring forward children’s doses so that parents can also exercise the right to vaccinate their children. Until February 15th, we will distribute doses to vaccinate all children between 5 and 11 years old,” he told reporters this morning. Monday (7).
The IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) estimates that, in 2021, there were 20.4 million people aged between 5 and 11 years old. Thus, the government needs to send this amount to be able to vaccinate all children in the country with the first dose.
Childhood vaccination was included in the national vaccination campaign on 5 January. The application of doses began on January 14. The indigenous boy Davi Seremramiwe Xavante, 8, was the first to be immunized, with pediatric doses from Pfizer.
The government forecast is to receive 20 million doses of pediatric Pfizer in the first quarter, with the possibility of expanding to another 10 million.
On January 21, the ministry included Coronavac in the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years.
In addition to the doses already in stock, the folder asked last month for the purchase of 10 million doses of the Coronavac vaccine from the Butantan Institute to immunize children against Covid-19.
The vaccination of children and adolescents is a sensitive topic in the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, as the president distorts data and discourages the immunization of young people. He even threatened to expose the names of Anvisa servers who approved the use of Pfizer vaccines in children.
In a note released on January 8, the president of Anvisa, Antonio Barra Torres, rebutted insinuations of alleged hidden interests of Anvisa in vaccinating children and demanded the president’s retraction.
The use of Coronavac in Brazil has also become a subject of dispute between Bolsonaro and São Paulo governor João Doria (PSDB).
The president even ordered the cancellation of the purchase of 60 million doses of this vaccine and called the immunizer the “Chinese Doria vaccine”.
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