used the identity of the dead to quickly access coronavirus vaccines

Control authorities in Brazil on Friday confirmed scandalous irregularities in the coronavirus vaccination plan, as there were several cases in which the identities of the deceased have been used to access medications in advance.

The analysis, carried out by the Comptroller General of the Nation, verified the respect of priorities for some 10 million doses of vaccines, which have been applied against covid-19 since March 10.

“There are cases of vaccines applied to people listed as dead in the mortality information system of the Ministry of Health (SIM) with the date of issue of the death certificate before the start of vaccination,” said the press release issued by the Office of the Comptroller. .

Although the Office of the Comptroller did not disclose the number of people who used the data of deceased citizens to access a vaccine, the O’Globo portal speaks of about 1,000 cases.

People who have at least three vaccination cards, vaccination of 60 years, who, although seniors, are not yet part of the vaccination group and citizens vaccinated as health professionals, without being, do part of the main fraud identified.

According to the study, they were identified around 50,000 inconsistencies, which represents 0.5% of the 10 million doses considered for the analysis.

For the study, own data and cross-references with other official databases of vaccine registers applied up to March 10 were analyzed.

The vaccination of the more than 210 million inhabitants of the South American giant began on January 17 but is progressing slowly due to the lack of doses of ready-to-use immunizers.

So far, only 4.5% of the Brazilian population has received the first dose of any of the vaccines used in the country and only 1.5% already have both doses.

According to the Ministry of Health, 562 million vaccines have already been purchased from various laboratories, including those already produced in Brazil (that of AstraZeneca / Oxford and that of the Sinovac laboratory).

However, much of the vaccine will not be ready until the second half of the year. To date, some 24 million doses have been dispensed, of which just over half have been applied.

Brazil, with its more than 210 million inhabitants, is the current global epicenter of the pandemic with more than 290,000 deaths and 11.8 million infections.

Source EFE.