The governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), congratulated the decision of minister Luís Roberto Barroso, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), to determine the obligatory nature of the passport for the vaccine against Covid in Brazil.
“We have to protect Brazilians. Right decision by the Minister,” stated Doria, in a tweet.
Barroso determined, this Saturday (11), the mandatory passport of the vaccine against Covid-19 for all travelers coming from abroad.
The document will only be necessary in case of people who have a medical justification for the absence of proof of vaccination and in case of people who come from countries where there is no vaccine available.
The Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, Doria’s political opponent, had been asked to adopt the measure —mainly after the appearance and spread of the ômicron variant—, but resisted. This week, the government determined that travelers coming from abroad would need to comply with five days of quarantine if they did not present proof of vaccination. The start of application of the measure, however, was postponed after a cyber attack on the Ministry of Health’s systems.
According to Barroso, only negative Covid tests or quarantine, which could hardly be controlled, are not options for the vaccine passport. The minister says that allowing the free option for quarantine “creates a situation of absolute lack of control and the consequent ineffectiveness of the norm”.
Barroso also stated, in his decision on the subject, that there is urgency in the passport, considering the end of the year period, in which there is an increase in travel, and the risk of Brazil becoming an anti-vaccine destination.
Directors of Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) have made public their concern with the possibility that the non-requirement of a vaccination passport will make the country a destination for anti-vaccination tourism.
Bolsonaro personally opposes the passport requirement. “They wanted us to impose here the obligation of the vaccination card. How can I accept the vaccination card if I didn’t take the vaccine? It’s my right not to take it, as is the right of anyone here,” said the president, in the last Thursday (9).
On the same occasion, Bolsonaro cursed the Doria administration, who had stated that if the federal government did not adhere to the vaccine passport, the document would be required, in any case, in São Paulo as from mid-December.
Throughout the pandemic, the feud between Bolsonaro and Doria -who put his candidacy for the government of São Paulo, in 2018, to the figure of president – was clear, something that was further intensified with the beginning of vaccination in the country with doses of Coronavac, vaccine against Covid produced at Instituto Butantan, in São Paulo. In 2022, the two must face each other in the presidential race.
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