Student is vaccinated with a dose of CoronaVac at Instituto Butantan
By Anthony Boadle
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recommended this Wednesday the application of a booster dose of a vaccine against Covid-19 in people who received doses of the immunizing agents CoronaVac, from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, and from vaccine manufactured by Chinese pharmaceutical Sinopharm.
Both immunizers are produced with inactivated virus technology. In Brazil, elderly people and health professionals vaccinated with CoronaVac, the vaccine that kicked off the national immunization campaign against Covid in the country, are receiving booster doses, primarily with Pfizer’s immunizing agent, made with messenger RNA technology, provided they are six months after the second dose of CoronaVac.
The World Health Organization (WHO) arm for the Americas said that 46% of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean is fully vaccinated, and most countries have already reached the WHO target of 40% vaccination coverage set by the end of the year. year, adding that Covid-19 infections and deaths in the region had fallen for the eighth week in a row, while warning that a high percentage of hospital admissions caused by the disease are from people who have not been vaccinated.
“Vaccine inequality remains the biggest barrier to achieving our coverage goals,” PAHO Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa said at a briefing.
Barbosa called the view that people with coronaviruses are immune to Covid-19 and do not need to be vaccinated fake news. He cited a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published on Friday that found that unvaccinated people who have previously tested positive for the coronavirus are 5.49 times more likely to be reinfected than those who are unvaccinated. who have been fully vaccinated.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who is skeptical of the vaccine and has contracted Covid-19 at least once, has repeatedly said he is immune and does not need to be vaccinated.
“This is not true. This is false news,” said Barbosa. “The protection offered by the natural disease is not enough, as there are new variants of Covid, so people can become infected with the variants,” he added.
In North America, all three countries — Mexico, the United States and Canada — registered a drop in weekly cases and deaths, and there is a notable drop in hospitalizations in the US and Canada, said PAHO, which also noted similar declines in Central and southern.
(Additional reporting by Lucila Sigal in Buenos Aires)
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