Pasta also did not communicate the date of application of the doses; The current government’s team has been criticized by Lula’s transition group, which has spoken of “chaos” in the sector
BRASILIA – O Ministry of Health informed this Friday 25 that bivalent vaccines against covid-19 should be available in early December. questioned by Stage on the number of doses and the start date of the application for new immunizers, the file did not provide details.
On Tuesday 22, the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) approved the emergency use of Pfizer’s bivalent vaccine against covid-19. The decision, approved unanimously, allows the use of the immunizer as a booster dose in the population over 12 years of age.
Healthcare has a contract in place with the pharmaceutical company Pfizer for the acquisition of vaccines against covid. The agreement provides for “the delivery of potential vaccines adapted to new variants and/or for different age groups”. Following Anvisa’s approval, Pfizer said the immunizers would arrive “in the coming weeks.”
The folder commanded by Marcelo Queiroga it was criticized by the transition team by the elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), in charge of the health area, this Friday. The technical group said that the data available so far indicate a state of “general chaos” in the sector. The health doctor Arthur Chioro, coordinator of the group, said that the Bolsonaro government has not sent the team basic information, such as the current situation of vaccine stocks and the expiry date of what has been purchased. So far no vaccines against covid and other diseases have been acquired for next year.
According to the technical group, this year thousands of vaccines against the covid-19 have yet to expire, while thousands of people of all ages have not yet taken the booster vaccines or even the first dose, as is the case among children. Chioro recalled that the current situation is one of “absolute insecurity” and “degradation” with respect to the national population immunization programme.
Bivalent
The bivalent vaccines they are more up to date and contain a mixture of SarsCov-2 virus strains. In this way, immunizers can guarantee greater protection against the new variants. Brazil is experiencing a new wave of covid-19, which has experts worried due to increased resistance to vaccine barriers and the transmissibility of new strains of the coronavirus.
The new immunizers will have a gray lid, different from the monovalent ones, to help differentiate the vaccines. The new versions do not require dilution for application.
In a note, the Ministry of Health said that “is the information on the lack of transparency of data relating to covid-19 false? of the vaccine administered, the date of administration, the booster doses applied, among others”.
“All this information is available for access by the population through the ConectaSUS application. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the federal government has acted quickly and transparently to simplify prevention, protection and assistance measures for the Brazilian population”, has registered.
“The file kept all the data relating to the progress of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 available to all Brazilians through the LocalizaSUS platform. In addition to the daily update of cases and deaths related to the disease”.
According to Sanità , “even with the end of the Public Health Emergency of National Importance (Espin), all data remain available and updated daily”. The folder underlines that, through the tool, “it is possible to find all the inputs and financial resources made available to States and Municipalities during the pandemic, such as beds, vaccines, medicines, diagnostic tests, PPE”.
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