The Ministry of Health announced that the last 540,000 doses of influenza vaccine will reach the public health departments and then the family doctors, for the immunization of people from risk categories.
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The Ministry of Health finalizes on Wednesday the distribution of the influenza vaccine doses purchased for the influenza vaccination campaign from the 2020-2021 season.
“For this season, the Ministry of Health has purchased approximately 3 million doses of influenza vaccine, double that of last year. We remind that, as part of the annual free influenza vaccination campaign of the Ministry of Health, people over 65 are immunized with priority. years, with chronic diseases, especially respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, institutionalized children and the elderly, medical staff, as well as pregnant women, according to the recommendations of the WHO and ECDC “, it is shown in a communiqué of the Ministry of Health.
The campaign of the Ministry of Health is carried out through the offices of family doctors and in sanitary units with beds. The distribution of vaccine doses to the public health departments was done in several stages, starting with September 14th.
As of November 29, 864,796 people in the at-risk categories had been vaccinated during the MS free vaccination campaign, according to INSP monitoring.
“According to the same sources, at the national level, the total number of cases of acute respiratory infections (clinical flu, IACRS and pneumonia) is decreasing, in the 48 weeks of monitoring, it was 31,874, 63.9% lower than in the same week of the previous season (88,394) and by 27.4% lower compared to the previous week (43,954) – decreases possibly due to the underreporting during the legal holidays “, also shows MS.
To date, only one laboratory-confirmed influenza case and no confirmed influenza virus deaths have been reported.
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