The National Vaccine Commission will analyze the relevance, although the authorities consider that it is a new vaccine.
The Minister of Health, Karina Rando, reported that the National Vaccine Commission will evaluate whether it is possible to apply the dengue vaccine, considered very new by the authorities.
The leader explained that countries in the region such as Brazil have considered administering them and others have decided not to apply them. “Uruguay is evaluating this process with experts and with a call that will be made soon to the National Vaccine Commission,” she announced.
For her part, the Director General of Health, Adriana Alfonso, explained that “this vaccine in particular is a very new vaccine (…) the WHO has reported that, at least for now, it is not expected to have a significant impact.” in the short or medium term.”
Furthermore, Uruguay is, at the moment, in an epidemiological situation that they described as privileged.
Meanwhile, Rando clarified that from now on the number of new cases will be reported to monitor the situation and to be transparent.
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