Covid-19: Brazilians show little interest in booster dose and stay away from vaccination appointments

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – More than 54 million Brazilians who should have taken the booster dose have not yet done so, according to a survey by the Ministry of Health. So far, 45.8 million people have received the extra dose

Already with the second dose, several million Brazilians who had received the first dose have failed to show up for vaccination appointments.

The booster doses can be administered four months after the completion of the vaccination cycle. Citizens should check with their municipal health secretariats to find out where these doses will be administered.

In Brazil, the coverage of the booster dose is about 30%.

No reasons were given for the strong reluctance, but with mounting reports of adverse reactions – many of them severe including deaths – related to vaccination in the millions from Europe and the United States, residents of Latin America’s largest country may have changed their minds.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Health announced the recommendation of a fourth dose of vaccination for adolescents with weakened immunity, what is known in the jargon as immunosuppression.

Today, Brazil passed the mark of 370 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19 administered to the population.

Of these, 168.8 million were the first dose and 153.9 million were the second or single dose.

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