Brasilia, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) Brazil today reached the mark of 700,000 deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health reported.
The health crisis due to the disease turned three years old on March 11 and left many impacts on the lives of the survivors and those who lost someone to the pathogen.
For the portfolio, vaccination is the main way to combat the health crisis and protect against serious cases and deaths caused by the disease.
In a note, it indicates that “increasing vaccine coverage against Covid-19 is a priority of the Ministry of Health, which launched the National Movement for Vaccination at the end of February.”
The state agency Brazil indicates that so far more than six million bivalent booster doses have been applied to improve immunity against the original Omicron variants and the BA1 sublineage of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
However, he adds, it is important to highlight that priority groups must seek a health unit.
All members of the priority groups can receive a booster with the bivalent vaccine against Covid-19.
The dose offers protection against the original variant of the disease-causing virus and against strains that emerged later, including Ómicron.
People 60 years of age or older, the population deprived of liberty, adolescents complying with socio-educational measures, prison system officials, pregnant and postpartum women, and health workers can be vaccinated against Covid-19 with the bivalent dose.
The vaccine is also available for adolescents 12 years and older and adults within priority groups: people living in long-term care facilities and their workers; immunocompromised; indigenous and riverside.
Likewise, the quilombolas (Afro-Brazilians) and people with permanent disabilities.
To receive the immunizer, it is necessary to have completed the primary scheme with the monovalent vaccines and respect a minimum period of four months from the last dose received.
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