{"id":63659,"date":"2021-01-22T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=63659"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T15:49:54","slug":"covid-19-rio-de-janeiro-expects-to-administer-first-batch-of-the-vaccine-by-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=63659","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Rio de Janeiro Expects to Finish Administering First Batch of Vaccines by Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Rio city government<\/em> assures Family Health Clinics will receive shots. But will favelas be prioritized in the vaccination plan?<\/em><\/h3>\n

On Wednesday, January 20, the Rio de Janeiro city government began immunizing health professionals at their place of work. Senior citizens and people with disabilities living in long-term care facilities are also being inoculated at these locations.<\/p>\n

During a press conference transmitted via YouTube<\/a> on Monday, January 18, the city government detailed how the first 110,000 doses of CoronaVac<\/a> will be administered to the Covid-19 vaccination priority groups in Rio. At no point, however, was a vaccination plan aimed at favelas presented. According to the Covid-19 in Favelas Unified Dashboard<\/a>, which brings together over twenty civil society organizations and collectives, as of January 20, 28,314 people in favelas had been infected and 3,067 died due to coronavirus. Rio de Janeiro has 6,718,903 inhabitants, with 22-24% of this population living in favelas, according to Data Rio<\/a>, the city’s government’s Instituto Pereira Passos\u2019s database.<\/p>\n

For Theresa Williamson, urban planner and executive director of Catalytic Communities<\/a>,* the organization coordinating data entry for the Covid-19 in Favelas Unified Dashboard<\/a>, the city needs to devise a specific vaccination plan for favelas. \u201cIt is important to think of favelas as a priority group because we know they are among the areas in our city made most vulnerable during the pandemic. There are also many elderly people staying home with children who missed an entire year of school, suffering a lifelong loss when compared to another portion of society that did not lose a year of learning,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"CoronaVac<\/a><\/p>\n

The immunization schedule set up by city government divided the population according to age groups, prioritizing the elderly and frontline healthcare workers. In this phase, the following will be immunized: (1) senior citizens aged 60 or over and living in long-term care facilities; (2) professionals working in long-term care facilities (nursing homes); (3) healthcare professionals working directly with Covid-19 and at ERs (approximately 34% of the municipality\u2019s healthcare workers); and (4) indigenous peoples. All professionals will be vaccinated at their place of work. All people connected to nursing homes will be immunized at nursing homes.<\/p>\n

According to Daniel Soranz, Rio\u2019s municipal secretary of health, the city received 110,000 doses, representing a portion of the 231,840 it will receive of the six million made available by the S\u00e3o Paulo state biomedical center, Instituto Butantan, for the whole country. The remaining doses will remain with the state government and are reserved for the second dose of the first group of immunized individuals.<\/p>\n

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As vacinas devem chegar as cl\u00ednicas da fam\u00edlia da cidade do Rio ainda amanh\u00e3 para iniciar a campanha de vacina\u00e7\u00e3o na quarta-feira, feriado, anivers\u00e1rio da cidade, dia de S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rene Silva (@eurenesilva) January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n