Fewer than 300,000 people have taken a bivalent vaccine against Covid-19 in Bahia, says Said | Bahia

Less than 300,000 Bahias have taken the bivalent vaccine against COVID-19, according to information released by the Secretary of State for Health (CESAP). The figure indicates that only about 30% of the more than 1 million doses available in Bahia have been administered since February.

The state also has more than 5.6 million absentees with an incomplete vaccination schedule. Covid-19 has already killed more than 31,000 people in Bahia.

Vaccines are valid for 10 weeks after removal from ultra-freezers. According to Seib, the Secretariat is in contact with the municipalities and is carrying out educational campaigns with the aim of educating the population.

The State Immunization Program Coordinator, Vânia Rebouças, attributed the low immunization adherence to a false sense of security among the Bahian population regarding the disease, and said it was a mistake.

“It is very important that the people who make up the audience at this point attend the vaccination sites,” explains Repocas.

The current phase of the bivalent vaccine targets people aged 60 years or over, pregnant women and puerperal women, health workers, people with permanent disabilities, people living in and working in long-term institutions, people with immunodeficiencies, indigenous people, and on the banks of The river Quilombo residents and communities, the population deprived of liberty, adolescents in social and educational measures, as well as workers in the system of deprivation of liberty.

In Bahia there are 5,617,574 people who have not been vaccinated or have an incomplete vaccination schedule. Of the intended audience of people 12 years of age or older, 709,342 (5.6%) were late for the first dose; 941,178 (7.9%) with a second dose delayed; 2,841,095 (26.1%) with the late booster dose (D3) and 1,125,959* (14.5%) with the second late booster dose (D4).