Butantan will donate 400,000 doses of flu vaccine to Rio

The Butantan Institute announced this Wednesday (8) that it will donate 400,000 doses of flu vaccine to the city of Rio de Janeiro. The municipality is facing an outbreak of influenza A, which has infected around 21,000 people in the last three weeks.

To meet the demand of the population seeking care, the government of Rio has installed tents to care for mild cases of flu, alongside the Upas, Emergency Care Units in the capital of Rio de Janeiro.

Given the lack of doses of the flu vaccine, Rio de Janeiro had decided, last Friday (3), to suspend immunization until the arrival of new batches.

Text translated using artificial intelligence.

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