Brazil has received 11 million COVID-19 vaccines and seeks to speed up vaccination of priority groups

Brazil, who lived in April the deadliest month among the fourteen of the pandemic, added 11 million coronavirus vaccines this weekend, some key deliveries to promote the vaccination campaign in one of the countries in the world hardest hit by covid-19.

About 7 million doses locally produced, vaccines Coronavac (Sinovac / Butantan) and Covishield (AstraZeneca / Fiocruz), were delivered on Friday. Other 4 million dose of Covishield, produced in India and China, came to the country thanks to the alliance Installation of Covax, of the World Health Organization (WHO).

In all, 10.5 million are Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines and others 420 thousand doses come from Coronavac, the vaccine from Chinese company Sinovac Biotech.

On Thursday, a shipment of the vaccine had already arrived in the country Cominarty, of the American-German consortium Pfizer-BioNtech.

The new deliveries allow the federal government to speed up the vaccination rate in the country of more than 210 million people, one of the three most affected by the pandemic in absolute numbers in the world along with the United States and India.

According to calculations by researchers, cited by the newspaper Or balloon, Brazil to apply 1.5 million doses per day to complete the protection of priority groups during this semester, or 80.5 million people.

However, at this rate, current deliveries will complete in just ten daysTherefore, more supplies of the same amount will be needed in the coming days so that the country can maintain the ideal pace of the vaccination campaign. In this context, the Butantan Institute has already promised to deliver 1 million additional doses next Thursday, according to Or Globe.

Vaccination campaign stopped

Before new deliveries, Brazil had to stop the vaccination campaign due to a lack of vaccines. On Sunday, six Brazilian capitals (Aracaju, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Recife and Rio de Janeiro) announced the suspension of the application of the second dose of CoronaVac, lack of vaccines.

Near 31 million people have already received at least one dose of a vaccine against covid-19 in Brazil, equivalent to 15% of the population. In April a average of 816 thousand daily doses.

The Minister of Health himself, Marcelo Queiroga, admitted that at this rate, vaccination of priority groups would not be completed until September. The delay in the schedule has been attributed to problems with shipments of supplies, which are not yet manufactured in Brazil.

Brazil records a death rate of 194 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and an incidence of 7,021 infected people in the same proportion.

The state of Sao Paulo, the most populous in the country with 46 million inhabitants and located in the Southeast region, continues to be the region with the most confirmed cases (2,923,367) and deaths (97 058).

Since the first contagion on February 26 and the first death on March 12, both in Sao Paulo, the country now has 14,754,910 confirmed cases and a total of 407,639 deaths.

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