Health Minister

Priority groups to receive doses against influenza and COVID-19 must approach or be taken to the vaccination centers enabled within the 2024 winter vaccination campaign, which aims to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with the virus, especially among groups of risks.

The ideal is for each family to approach its members who are within the prioritized group to be immunized during the campaign that has already begun and who are protected against circulating respiratory viruses.

The prevention of complications and hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases is possible with the application of the influenza and COVID-19 vaccine to people over 60 years of age and older, the Paraguayan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology recommends.

“We have to prevent respiratory diseases in our elderly people and avoid complications and hospitalization. Let’s take advantage of the availability of vaccines, this will help a lot to prevent complications and hospitalizations,” said Dr. Mercedes Duarte, president of the Paraguayan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.

During the influenza vaccination campaign in 2024, quadrivalent inactivated vaccines will be administered. In addition to people over 60 years of age and older, the priority group includes: health workers, pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy, postpartum women, children from 6 to 35 months of age (2 doses will be administered in the case of primary vaccination), cohabitants with premature newborns, cohabitants with immunocompromised.

Also people from 3 to 59 years old with risk factors (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, neurological, rheumatological, autoimmune diseases, or under immunosuppressive treatment, congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies, cancer, and patients transplanted), population deprived of their liberty, indigenous population.

In addition, for the 2024 winter campaign, doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from the Moderna laboratory are available, with the updated composition. The vaccination schedule against COVID-19 will include: two doses for boys and girls from 6 months to 4 years (without a history of vaccination) with an interval of 8 weeks between doses, one dose for the population 5 years and older.

The prioritized groups for vaccination against COVID-19 also include immunocompromised people or people with chronic diseases, people over 6 months of age, health personnel and pregnant women from 20 weeks of gestation.

Both vaccines, against influenza and COVID-19, will be available at vaccination centers and can be administered simultaneously.

Vaccination Centers

2024-04-08 16:06:20
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The Ministry of Health answers the most frequently asked questions about the International Electronic Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificate. First, enter: and the electronic identity must be created.

If you do not yet have an electronic identity, in The steps to create it are explained.

With electronic identity, you can access various documents. In the “Health” section, the International Electronic Vaccination Certificate is available, as well as the International Electronic Vaccination Certificate for children. Both documents are issued free of charge through the portal.

Important: You can only download the certificate of the person entering the website and that of your children, not those of other people.

At Migrations, you can present the electronic certificate or the printed international vaccination card. Both documents are valid.

The electronic certificate is available in two languages ​​(Spanish and English), it has a barcode and a QR code. Migrations can scan the QR code to confirm its validity, if necessary.

The International Electronic Vaccination Certificate can be downloaded as many times as necessary, but the document is generated only once a day.

In this electronic document, there is separate information regarding vaccination against yellow fever, a mandatory dose to leave and enter the country, and the other recommended vaccines (anti-polio and measles). For this information to be reflected in the electronic certificate, the data must be uploaded to the Electronic Vaccination Registry System (RVe).

We answer doubts

•If you do not have a vaccination certificate that confirms that you have already received the dose against yellow fever, is a medical certificate, signed and sealed by a doctor, stating the date and batch of the vaccine I received valid?

No, it is not valid. This certificate cannot be transcribed into the system or onto a printed card. Therefore, if you must travel and cannot prove with a vaccination card that you have received the dose against yellow fever, you must go to the nearest vaccination center ten days before the trip and get vaccinated against the disease to be protected. and access the international vaccination certificate.

•If you have the international certificate or any vaccination card showing that you received the yellow fever vaccine, but in the portal It does not appear, what should be done?

To generate the updated electronic certificate, the physical card must be taken to any vaccination center of the Ministry of Health or to a private service that uses the RVe (Sanatorio La Costa, Sanatorio Británico and Migone), so that they transcribe that information into the system and, once Updated information will be reflected in the digital certificate.

List of Vaccinations https://pai.mspbs.gov.py/centro-de-vacunacion/

•If you do not have a printed vaccination card, but when you enter the portal, the yellow fever vaccination information is generated, is it valid?

Yes, that means that it is in the RVe and is valid, even if you do not have the form.

•If you do not have any vaccination card, the information is not generated in the portal, and you cannot prove that you are vaccinated against yellow fever, and you want to travel, what should you do?

Go to the nearest vaccination center. When you get vaccinated, you register in the system and that will be reflected in the portal. You can also request the printed international certificate (it is delivered in district and regional hospitals and maternal and child centers, as well as in the regional vaccination center of the XVIII RS – Capital and in the private centers La Costa, Británico and Migone).

List of Vaccinations https://pai.mspbs.gov.py/centro-de-vacunacion/

•Can electronic identity be created by anyone living in the country?

The electronic identity can be created by any Paraguayan/foreigner with Paraguayan identity card, older.

•If no child appears on the list in the portal, and you need to download the electronic certificate, what should be done?

A photo of the birth certificate of the child(ren) and the mother’s or father’s identity card (both sides) must be sent to the following email address: subsistema.pai@mspbs.gov.py, in order to associate the information about the children in the RVe system and the electronic identity of the father or mother. The information will be updated between 24 to 48 hours after placing the order by mail, with the attached documents.

•If you do not have the child’s birth certificate, what to do?

In the same portal you can download the birth certificate from the Civil Registry section (there is a cost, just as if you request it over the counter in physical format).

•If you have your children’s pediatric health record, which shows their vaccination, is it useful to request the international certificate?

With the pediatric health record containing the vaccination, it can be transcribed into the RVE system or request the printed international vaccination card. You must go to the nearest vaccination center (Here you can access the centers that issue international vaccination cards in printed format, https://pai.mspbs.gov.py/centro-de-vacunacion/).

•From what year have the records been digitized?

The yellow fever vaccination records for all of Paraguay have been digitalized (uploaded to the RVe System) since 2022.

In Asunción, (XVIII Health Region – Capital) they have been loaded since the second half of November 2018. Any person who has been vaccinated or vaccinated their children at this vaccination center from that date onwards no longer needs to go to the vaccination center, since that the record is digitized.

If you are going on a trip there are 2 options, request the form of the international vaccination card or generate the electronic certificate, through the portal with electronic identity.

•If you were vaccinated or your children were vaccinated before these dates, what should be done?

In case you have to travel and your data and those of your children are not digitized, you can take your vaccination card and those of your children to any vaccination center of the Ministry of Health or a private one that manages the RVe (La Costa, British and Migone), to upload the information to the system and, once updated, it will be reflected in the digital certificate https://pai.mspbs.gov.py/centro-de-vacunacion/

Related information

Frequently Asked Questions about the International Electronic Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificate

2023-12-16 03:00:35
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In the last week, an 8% decrease in the demand for consultations due to influenza-type illness was reported. SARS-CoV2 is the predominant virus at the moment. The application of the annual vaccine protects against severe forms of the disease, available in the country’s vaccination centers.

In the last week (SE) 46, consultations for influenza-type illness (ILI) have registered a decrease of 8%, compared to the previous week, going from 20,695 to 19,017, from one week to the next, indicates the weekly report of Universal country surveillance. However, the trend curve remains above the alert threshold.

In this same period, 252 people were hospitalized for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI), presenting a slight decrease in new hospitalizations of 12%, compared to the previous week. Among those hospitalized, 55% correspond to pediatric age; 55% being children under 2 years old, and 45% adults.

Among the respiratory viruses identified in the last week in patients hospitalized for acute respiratory infections, a predominance in the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 was identified, followed by rhinovirus, metapneumovirus, parainfluenza and adenovirus.

Having the annual dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is key to reducing the risk of hospitalizations and associated deaths. Citizens, mainly priority groups, are urged to apply their annual dose of protection.

Thus, it is also important to keep children’s regular vaccination schedule up to date, especially those under 5 years of age.

If you have respiratory symptoms

•Use face masks.

•Go to the doctor’s consultation and comply with the indicated rest to avoid infecting others.

•Avoid going to work, study or daycare sick. It is also not advisable with respiratory symptoms to attend meetings or places with a high concentration of people.

Acute and Serious Respiratory Infections Report

2023-12-01 19:59:50
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Patient demand for influenza-type illness decreased 11% in the last week, but viruses continue to circulate, which is why the health ministry insists on the importance of annual vaccination against COVID-19 and influenza.

Sentinel Surveillance shows that in the last week (SE) 44, consultations for influenza-type illness (ILI) at the country level have registered a decrease of 11%, in relation to the previous week, going from 21,080 to 18,762, between a week and another. Despite this decrease, the trend curve continues to exceed the alert threshold.

Regarding those hospitalized for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI), a slight decrease in new hospitalizations was observed in the sentinel centers. In this last week, 258 hospitalizations for SARI were recorded, 54 less than the previous week, of which 57% correspond to pediatric age, 48% being children under 2 years of age, which is the most affected group, and 43 % of adulthood. Despite this decrease, the number of hospitalized people is above what was recorded the previous year at this same time.

Among the respiratory viruses identified in the last week in patients hospitalized for acute respiratory infections, the circulation of SARS-CoV2 predominates, followed by Rhinovirus, Metapneumovirus, Parainfluenza and Adenovirus.

Annual vaccination is important

Having the annual dose of the influenza and COVID-19 vaccine is key to reducing the risk of hospitalizations and deaths associated with these diseases that circulate all year round.

Citizens, mainly priority groups, are urged to apply their annual dose of protection.

It is also important to keep children’s regular vaccination schedule up to date, especially those under 5 years of age.

If you have respiratory symptoms

• Use face masks.

• Go to the doctor’s consultation and comply with the indicated rest to avoid infecting others.

• Avoid going to work, study or daycare sick. It is also not advisable with respiratory symptoms to attend meetings or places with a high concentration of people.

2023-11-20 14:04:58
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In the last one, a decrease in the demand for consultations due to influenza-type illness was observed. Accessing annual vaccination against influenza and COVID-19 reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from these diseases.

In the last week (SE) 43, consultations for influenza-type illness (ILI) have registered a decrease of 14%, compared to the previous week, going from 24,259 to 21,080, from one week to the next, indicates the weekly report of Sentinel Surveillance. Despite this decrease, the trend curve remains above the alert threshold.

Regarding those hospitalized for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI), in the sentinel centers there was a slight decrease in new hospitalizations, compared to the previous week. In the last week evaluated, 312 hospitalizations for SARI were registered, of which 51% correspond to pediatric age; 51% being children under 2 years old, and 49% adults.

Among the respiratory viruses identified in the last week in patients hospitalized for acute respiratory infections, the circulation of SARS-CoV2 predominates, followed by Rhinovirus, Parainfluenza and Metapneumovirus.

Annual vaccination is important

Having the annual dose of the influenza and COVID-19 vaccine is key to reducing the risk of hospitalizations and deaths associated with these diseases that circulate all year round.

Citizens, mainly priority groups, are urged to apply their annual dose of protection.

Thus, it is also important to keep children’s regular vaccination schedule up to date, especially those under 5 years of age.

If you have respiratory symptoms

Use face masks.

Go to the doctor’s consultation and comply with the indicated rest to avoid infecting others.

Avoid going to work, study or daycare sick. It is also not advisable with respiratory symptoms to attend meetings or places with a high concentration of people.

Report Acute and severe respiratory infections

2023-11-13 11:26:36
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