TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – A number of Brazilian city governments deny allegations of using Corona vaccine from an expired AstraZeneca. The denial came after local media previously stated that cities in Brazil were using 26,000 AstraZeneca vaccines that had expired.
Media massa setempat, Folha de S. Paulo sebelumnya menyatakan Maringa termasuk salah satu kota yang menggunakan lebih dari 3.500 suntikan kedaluwarsa.
Namun hal itu dibantah oleh Sekretaris Kesehatan Kota Maringa, Marcelo Puzzi. Dia mengatakan kecurigaan vaksin kedaluwarsa akibat kesalahan dalam sistem. "Tidak ada dosis vaksin yang kedaluwarsa di Maringa, tetapi ada kesalahan dalam sistem," kata Puzzi dalam sebuah pernyataan.
Hal senada dinyatakan oleh pejabat kota lainnya. Pejabat São Paulo, Juiz de Fora dan Belo Horizonte, yang juga menyangkal telah menggunakan vaksin lawas.
Corona Vaccination in Brazil has drawn criticism. The government is considered slow and there is a corruption scandal in the procurement of vaccines.
Vaccine doses that have expired are also considered less effective. In Africa, a number of countries have experienced the same thing. By May, Malawi had destroyed nearly 20,000 doses of the vaccine that had expired.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has refused to be vaccinated. He even doubts that vaccines can eradicate the Corona pandemic which has killed 500,000 people in Brazil.
According to the media Folha de S. Paulo, the expired vaccine came from a batch imported from India by the public Fiocruz biomedical institute through the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
Neither the Ministry of Health nor the PAHO has commented on this expired vaccine. AstraZeneca is one of the vaccines used in Brazil in addition to China’s CoronaVac.
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