The Ministry of Health will release the booster dose of Covid vaccine for people aged 18 and over. The application of the new injection will be carried out five months after the basic vaccination schedule for all adults.
The decision was announced at a press conference at the Ministry of Health this Tuesday (16).
Since the end of September, the Ministry of Health has indicated the application of the booster dose to people over 60 years of age, in addition to members of risk groups, such as patients undergoing chemotherapy, immunodeficiency, people living with HIV/AIDS, among others cases.
For this audience, the doses were applied six months after the complete vaccination cycle, that is, after the second application of the vaccines by Pfizer, Coronavac, AstraZeneca and Janssen, which will start to be administered in two applications like the others.
With the change announced on Tuesday, the interval will be reduced to five months after the basic cycle.
The Ministry of Health guidelines on the vaccination campaign serve to guide states and municipalities, but there is no obligation to follow the federal government. Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and some municipalities have already anticipated the change and reduced the interval to apply the booster dose from six to five months.
“With this, we are going to have greater coverage of the population and avoid what has been happening in Europe,” said the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga.
Germany, for example, is considering returning to the home office regime, while the Netherlands became on Friday (12) the first country in Western Europe to resume stricter measures of social isolation because of Covid.
Brazil has 58.9% of the population with the first complete vaccination cycle. About 75.7% of the population received at least one dose. The data are from the consortium formed by the vehicles sheet, Uol, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, o Globo and G1.
According to the website Our World in Data, linked to the University of Oxford, in England, Brazil surpassed the United States in the percentage of vaccinated against Covid.
The information was shared on a social network by scientist Eric Topol, cardiologist, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, and professor of Molecular Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute. According to him, Brazil joined 55 other countries that surpassed the American indexes.
Vaccination of children and adolescents
For the population under 18 years of age, in Brazil only Pfizer has authorization from Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) to apply the injection against Covid in adolescents aged 12 to 17 years.
Last Friday (12), the agency received an application for the use of this immunizing agent in children aged 5 to 11 years. The request must be analyzed within a period of up to 30 days.
The Butantan Institute, responsible in Brazil for the production of Coronavac, claims to have presented the necessary documents for the release of the immunizing agent for children, but the regulatory agency denies having received sufficient information for the authorization.
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