The Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government must waive the Covid-19 test requirement for vaccinated people who enter Brazil.
It also evaluates to stop charging quarantine for those who are not vaccinated, but have a negative result for the new coronavirus under examination.
The rule must apply to entry into the country through airports and at borders by land and waterway.
The changes were suggested by Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency) last week. The final decision will be made official in an ordinance by the Ministry of Health, the Civil House, the Ministry of Justice and Infrastructure.
The agency suggests that the changes take effect from May 1.
But the government, which is preparing a package of flexibilities to advertise that it has overcome the health crisis, may anticipate the new rules on border control.
According to the current rule, anyone who enters Brazil by international flight must present a negative result in a test for Covid and a vaccination certificate.
If not vaccinated, in addition to presenting the test, the passenger must carry out a quarantine of up to 14 days. This isolation can be waived from the fifth day onwards, as long as the traveler is asymptomatic.
Anvisa also proposed to waive the presentation of the DSV (Declaration of Health of the Traveler), a document that provides information, for example, about places where the passenger was in the previous days.
At the end of 2021, the government even rejected Anvisa’s suggestions and tried to maintain a gap for the entry of unvaccinated people into Brazil, but the STF decided that it was necessary to collect proof of vaccination against Covid.
President Bolsonaro even said that Anvisa wanted to “close the airspace”. “Again, damn it? Are you going to start this business again?”, asked the excited president in December of last year.
The flexibilities should occur at a time when the government tries to get the version that Covid won in Brazil. The Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, and Bolsonaro went so far as to say that the pandemic will be over, but this decision is up to the WHO (World Health Organization).
as showed the sheet, Queiroga modulated the speech, began to recognize that he has no power to end the pandemic and now aims for milder changes. Among them, recommending the end of the use of masks and repealing rules that are no longer essential to combat Covid
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