MADRID, 18 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Brazil has assured deliveries of vaccines against the coronavirus by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation until “the third week of June” since the arrival next Saturday of two batches of active pharmacological ingredient (IFA) will allow the production of up to 12 million doses of the AstraZeneca immunizer.
This was stated by Fiocruz this Monday, correcting the information of the executive secretary of the Ministry of Health, Rodrigo Cruz, who had announced in the Senate that the supplies that will arrive sent from China would be for 18 million doses.
In this way, it is guaranteed that the Brazilian Government receives these doses to continue with the Vaccination Plan when doses are needed and a shortage has been reported for days, and while the production of the CoronaVac vaccine at the Butantan Institute has been stopped since the end last week also waiting for the arrival of supplies.
Precisely, the Governor of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, has reported that 4,000 liters of raw material for the production of this biological will arrive on May 26, reports the Brazilian media G1.
Meanwhile, Brazil has already applied 58.6 million doses, according to the media consortium that analyzes the pandemic, which has specified that 39.2 million people have acquired at least the first dose and 19.4 million the scheme full.
The country accumulates so far 15,657,391 confirmed coronavirus cases since the pandemic broke out, which has left 436,537 fatalities, according to the latest balance of the Ministry of Health, published this Monday.
In the last day, there have been 29,916 positives and 786 deaths due to COVID-19.
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