The trade balance for May 2023 closed with a positive balance of $9.719 billion, in contrast to the positive balance of $3.368 billion recorded in May 2022.
São Paulo’s Butantan Institute is exporting doses of the trivalent shot to Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Uruguay. The 5.4 million doses started being delivered late in March.
The figures for 2022 exceed those of 2019 by approximately $4 million. There was also a growth in the volume exported. There were 8.6 million liters exported, an increase of 30.38%.
The Butantan vaccine is called “trivalent,” after its capacity to generate immune responses against three variants of the influenza virus: H1N1, the B strain, and H3N2.