Health

Yanomami: Brazilian government advances vaccination against covid-19

Twenty thousand doses will be sent to the Yanomami territory

Paula Laboissière

Published on 14/02/2023 - 10:56

Brasília

Surucucu (RR), 09/02/2023 - Homens yanomami em Surucucu, na Terra Indígena Yanomami. Foto: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil — © Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil

About 20 thousand bivalent doses against covid-19 will be sent in the next few days to the Yanomami Indigenous Land. According to the Ministry of Health, the immunization of this population was scheduled to begin on February 27, but was brought forward due to what the ministry described as a "serious health and humanitarian crisis found in the territory".

National Force

The action will be operated by the Health Secretariat of Roraima, with the of professionals from the National Force of the Unified Health System (SUS in Portuguese) who are already in the region.

In addition to the vaccines against covid-19, other immunizers from the National Vaccination Calendar, according to the ministry, will also be delivered to update the immunization of the Yanomami people.