COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil
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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.[10]
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Date | January 17, 2021 (2021-01-17) – present |
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Duration | 3 years, 3 months and 10 days |
Location | Brazil |
Cause | COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil |
Target | Population aged 6 months or older[2] |
Budget | R$27.5 billion[3] |
Organised by | Ministry of Health of Brazil Federative units and municipalities of Brazil |
Participants | 189.64 million (dose 1 of 2)[4] 176.16 million (all doses)[5] 126.39 million (booster doses)[6] |
Outcome | 88.10% partially vaccinated (1 of 2 doses)[7] 81.80% fully vaccinated[8] 58.70% fully vaccinated with a booster dose[9] |
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.[11]
There is no deadline forecast for immunizing the country's entire population due to the lack of supplies for vaccine production[12] and also due to political disputes between the São Paulo state government and the Jair Bolsonaro government.[13][14][15]
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.[16][17]