COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Brazil is an ongoing mass immunization campaign for the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. It started on January 17, 2021, when the country had 210 thousand deaths.
Vaccination in July 13, 2022
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| Date | January 17, 2021 – present |
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| Duration | 3 years and 3 months |
| Location | Brazil |
| Cause | COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil |
| Target | Population aged 6 months or older |
| Budget | R$27.5 billion |
| Organised by | Ministry of Health of Brazil Federative units and municipalities of Brazil |
| Participants | 189.64 million (dose 1 of 2) 176.16 million (all doses) 126.39 million (booster doses) |
| Outcome | 88.10% partially vaccinated (1 of 2 doses) 81.80% fully vaccinated 58.70% fully vaccinated with a booster dose |
| Website | Governo Federal |
| Updated in November 28, 2023 | |
The Instituto Butantan imported the first 6 million doses of CoronaVac in a collaboration with the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech.
There is no deadline forecast for immunizing the country's entire population due to the lack of supplies for vaccine production and also due to political disputes between the São Paulo state government and the Jair Bolsonaro government.
According to a June 2022 study published in The Lancet, COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil prevented an additional 1 million deaths from December 8, 2020, to December 8, 2021.
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