The Rede Sustentabilidade party filed a lawsuit with the STF (Supreme Federal Court) in which it accuses the Jair Bolsonaro government of omission and asks that the adoption of measures recommended by Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) be determined to allow the entry of travelers in Brazil.
The agency suggested this Friday (26) to limit entry to the country of those who have been to six African countries in the last 14 days: South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland (Eswatini), Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Argentina is not among the countries mentioned.
The idea is to prevent the spread in Brazil of a new, potentially more transmissible variant of Covid-19, B.1.1.529.
“The federal government has been, even in moments of greatest crisis, disregarding the border controls recommended by technical bodies and adopted by other countries that were successful in controlling the pandemic, especially with regard to air travel”, says the network in the action.
“Certainly, we do not want the number of deaths caused by the delta variant in Brazilian territory, responsible for an apocalyptic scenario in the city of Manaus, to be repeated with the new variant that was just discovered in South Africa”, he continues.
Anvisa proposed that the federal government cover the vaccination certificate against Covid-19 as a way to allow travelers to enter Brazil. The measure would be valid to allow immigration by land. Today the borders are closed, with a few exceptions.
The Ministries of the Civil House, Justice and Health will decide whether or not to accept Anvisa’s suggestions for sanitary border control. as revealed to sheet, the government has ignored since the 12th the suggestion of the agency to adopt the “vaccine passport” for entry by land or on international flights in Brazil.
This Friday, President Jair Bolsonaro (non-party) defended the adoption of “rational measures” to contain the arrival of omicron, the new variant of the new coronavirus. He ruled out a new lockdown or border closure.
“Brazil can’t stand a lockdown any longer. I spoke with Admiral Barra Torres, with the Ciro of the Casa Civil discussing Argentina. Anyone who comes here by car from Argentina, no problem. Anyone who comes by plane has to spend four days in quarantine. Let’s go. take rational measures,” he said, without making it clear whether the decision has already been taken or not and whether it would extend to other borders.
Despite Bolsonaro’s speech, Brazil did not carry out a lockdown, the radical confinement to combat the transmission of the coronavirus, during the pandemic. In this type of intervention, the population has very reduced mobility for a certain period, as a strategy to contain the spread.
Detected earlier this week in South Africa, the new variant of Sars-Cov-2, which causes Covid, was named omicron this Friday afternoon by the WHO (World Health Organization).
It was directly classified as a “concern variant” because of the potential risk of being more transmissible than the previous ones.
It is still early to have scientific evidence of its effects on contagion, disease severity or vaccine effectiveness, but governments preferred to stay ahead as task forces of scientists work “24 hours a day” to understand it.
One of the first virologists to call attention to the variant, Tom Peacock of Imperial College London, pointed out that the mutations made in protein S were the “most horrible” ever seen, and that it was the first time he had seen not one but two mutations “at the furin cleavage site” (one of the processes necessary for the pathogen to enter human cells).
The director of Ceri (South Africa’s Center for Epidemic Response and Innovation), Túlio de Oliveira, said on Thursday (25) that the variant surprised virologists, because “it took a great leap forward in evolution and has many more mutations than expected”.
The variant has 50 mutations in total and more than 30 in protein S, the most worrying, because it is from this protein that vaccines are produced.
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