Due to lack of doses, flu vaccination is suspended in Volta Redonda | South of Rio and Costa Verde

Due to lack of doses, flu vaccination is suspended in Volta Redonda (RJ). Vaccines in the municipality ran out last Saturday (30).

According to city hall, new doses are expected to be sent by the state government this week. Once they arrive, vaccination will resume.

This year, the Ministry of Health decided to bring the campaign forward to the end of March. Traditionally, the campaign takes place between the months of April and May, but this year it started on March 25th, due to the increase in the circulation of respiratory viruses in the country.

The expectation is that 6.7 million people from priority groups will be immunized across the state of Rio de Janeiro.

In Volta Redonda, the influenza virus vaccine is available to the following target audiences:

• Children aged 6 months to under 6 years;
• Indigenous children aged 6 months to under 9 years;
• Health Workers;
• Pregnant women;
• Postpartum women;
• Teachers of basic and higher education;
• Indian people;
• Elderly people aged 60 and over;
• Homeless people;
• Security and rescue forces professionals;
• Armed Forces professionals;
• People with chronic non-communicable diseases and other special clinical conditions (regardless of age);
• People with permanent disabilities;
• Truck drivers;
• Public road transport workers (urban and long-distance);
• Port workers;
• Employees of the deprivation of liberty system;
• Population deprived of liberty, in addition to adolescents and young people under socio-educational measures (between 12 and 21 years old).

g1 carried out a survey of the 24 cities in the TV Rio Sul coverage area about the locations and opening hours of vaccination points and target audiences. Check it out here.