Santa Catarina will receive a new shipment of dengue vaccines; see region

Vaccination against dengue reaches only 22% of the target audience (Photo: Image Bank)

Municipalities in the Médio Vale do Itajaí should receive doses of the dengue vaccine in the fourth shipment of the vaccine, sent by the Ministry of Health. The information was confirmed by the ministry’s Secretary of Health and Environmental Surveillance, Ethel Maciel, in a press conference this Thursday Monday (25).

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This is the fourth shipment of doses of the vaccine to the States. Municipalities of North of Santa Catarina had received immunizations in February. Then, in April, municipalities in Greater Florianópolis were also included.

How many doses will each city receive

• Apiúna: 614
• Ascurra:444
• Benedito Novo: 648
• Blumenau: 20227
• Botuverá: 297
• Brusque: 8647
• Doctor Pedrinho: 195
• Gaspar: 4478
• Guabiruba: 1526
• Indaial: 4424
• Pomerode: 2006
• Rio dos Cedros: 618
• Rodeo: 728
• Timbo: 2611

The shipment intended for the application of the second dose must be sent later, considering the recommended interval of three months to complete the vaccination schedule.

For the whole of Brazil, there will be more than 986 thousand doses, including the second dose for municipalities in the previous stages. The vaccines that should arrive in the municipalities of the Médio Vale must be the first dose.

In total, there are six new states and 625 new municipalities served, totaling 25 states and 1,330 municipalities covered. For now, vaccines are only being applied to children and adolescents aged 10 to 14.

Until last Monday (22), data released by the Epidemiological Surveillance Directorate (DIVE) show that Santa Catarina has administered 32,755 doses of the dengue vaccine so far, which corresponds to just 22% of the target audience.

Find out more about dengue in SC

Santa Catarina already has more than 178 thousand probable cases of the disease (Photo: Image bank)

The government of Santa Catarina declared a public health emergency (Photo: Thomas Braga NSCTV)

The State already records 178,522 probable cases of dengue in 2024 (Photo: Thomas Braga NSCTV)

109 deaths from the disease were also confirmed (Photo: Thomas Braga, NSCTV)

The situation has already caused crowding in the emergency rooms of public hospitals in Santa Catarina (Photo: Joinville City Hall, Disclosure)

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