President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said again that the Ministry of Health should soon downgrade the status of a pandemic to an endemic Covid-19 two weeks after the holder of the portfolio, Marcelo Queiroga, said that this decision is not under his responsibility. elevation.
“In the coming days, as far as I know from the Ministry of Health, we will leave the pandemic and enter the endemic, this status will change in Brazil”, he said, in a recorded interview released this Wednesday (13).
Bolsonaro added that, when that happens, masks and other initiatives adopted to contain the pandemic will be “in history, in the past”.
Sought, the Ministry of Health did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On March 30, Queiroga had stated that he would not decree the end of the coronavirus pandemic, a comment that came after Bolsonaro himself publicly said that the minister was studying reclassifying the health crisis to endemic.
In an interview on the occasion, the minister and the executive secretary of the portfolio, Rodrigo Cruz, explained that the ministry is only considering ending the Espin (State of Emergency in Public Health of National Importance) in force for more than two years.
This type of state of emergency gives greater freedom to the public manager to make decisions to face the health crisis.
According to Queiroga, even for the decision on the state of emergency, a “series of analyses” was needed.
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