Brazil may lose more than 600,000 doses of dengue vaccine

Brazil may lose 668,000 doses of dengue vaccines. The reason: The expiration date for vaccines is approaching, on April 30. This corresponds to about 95.4% of the total available doses (700,000). The Ministry of Health issued this alert on Wednesday morning (27).

According to the federal government, since the start of the dengue vaccination campaign, 534,600 doses have been recorded as having been administered. This equates to 43% of the total available dose (1.235 million doses).

After recording a low rate of vaccination against dengue fever in the municipalities that received the vaccine, the Ministry of Health will redistribute the pending doses to other cities that were not in the initial plan. According to the statement, Another 154 municipalities will be covered by the vaccineIts target audience is children and teenagers aged 10 to 14 years.

“We know that there are a number of these doses that have not been applied. We cannot let these doses expire, we need to use them. Faced with this, the Ministry of Health came up with a solution: redistribution, within the federal units, that is, within the states, to municipalities that have not yet been covered, said the Director of the Public Health Emergency and Health Department. Public Health Emergency Operations Center for Dengue and Other Sexually Transmitted Viruses (COE-Dengue), Márcio Garcia.

The expansion included the following health areas: