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a Ministry of Health This week the decision to merge was approved vaccination against the COVID-19 to a calendar National immunization programme (NIBP). The idea is to apply annual booster doses to all groups with the same priority flusuch as the elderly, health professionals and immunocompromised people.
The decision was approved by the Technical Advisory Board on Immunization and provides for the use of the bivalent vaccine it has developed Pfizer With proven efficacy against the original Omicron variant and the BA1 strain of coronavirus. The vaccine was approved in November by National Health Surveillance Agency (Anfisa) And the first batch, with a quantity sufficient for 1.4 million orders, arrived in Brazil in early December.
“So far, the vaccine’s efficacy still protects against serious diseases, but we need protection against priority groups,” he says. Ethel Macielthe newly appointed Minister of Health and Environmental Control, Estadao. It further states that the Ministry of Health continues to monitor the emergence of new strains of coronavirus and will make any changes that become necessary.
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Last Friday, the Ministry of Health concluded a 30-year supplementary contract with Pfizer, providing for the delivery of an additional 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccines. In all, 150 million doses have been ordered from the drugmaker, 69 million of which will be delivered by the end of the second quarter of this year.
Below, check which combinations are considered priority in flu vaccination and which should be repeated in the annual coronavirus booster dose:
- children from six months to five years;
- pregnant women
- postpartum women
- health professionals
- Indian people
- persons aged 60 or over;
- Adolescents and young adults from 12 to 21 years old who are subject to social and educational measures;
- residents deprived of liberty and the staff of the prison system;
- People with chronic non-communicable diseases and other special clinical conditions.