The governor of the state of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, announced Monday, December 7 the start of vaccinations against the Covid-19 with the Chinese Coronavac from January 25, even if the latter has not yet been approved by the authorities sanitary facilities.
Health workers will be the first to be vaccinated, according to the program provided by the governor at a press conference. Then come the people over 60, the natives and the quilombolas, members of communities of descendants of fugitive slaves. A total of nine million people are expected to be vaccinated by March in Brazil’s richest and most populous state, with 46 million people.
For this program to be implemented on the dates set by the government of Sao Paulo, the Coronavac vaccine, from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, must be approved by the national health vigilance agency Anvisa. But the application for approval has not yet been filed, even if phase 3 of clinical trials with several thousand volunteers in Brazil is already well advanced.
Joao Doria’s announcement was seen by many political analysts as a spade aimed at far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who does not like the “Chinese vaccine” and of which he is one of the fiercest opponents. policies.
Doria notably criticized the national immunization plan against Covid-19, which provides that vaccinations will not begin until March. “Why wait until March if we can save lives from January?” He said at a press conference on Monday.
Last month, Jair Bolsonaro rekindled the “vaccine war” by welcoming the temporary suspension of clinical trials of Coronavac after the death of a volunteer. In October, he had already ordered the cancellation of an agreement for the acquisition of millions of doses of this Chinese vaccine, saying that he refused to make Brazilians “guinea pigs”.
The agreement signed by the government of Sao Paulo with Sinovac provides for the acquisition of six million doses to arrive in Brazil by the end of the month, and the local manufacture of 40 million additional doses. Brazil is the second country most bereaved by Covid-19, with more than 176,000 dead.
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Author: lefigaro.fr – Seneweb.com
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