2023-06-02 23:05:00
A National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) adopted a new position in the regulation of receiving travelers to the country in relation to covid-19. The interministerial ordinance establishing the new international transit restriction policy was published on May 23. The rules cover travelers and airlines, waterways and land.
Brazilians or foreigners no longer need to submit a negative test for covid-19 or proof of vaccination to enter national territory. According to Anvisa, the decision to end the obligation was taken after the end of the health emergency of international importance, declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), at the beginning of last month.
“This scenario made it possible to determine that covid-19 is now an established and ongoing health problem, no longer constituting a public health emergency of international importance”, informs the Anvisa document.
“In this way, Brazil no longer requires travelers of international origin to prove vaccination against covid-19 or the presentation of a negative test result, as well as the implementation by administrators of passenger terminals and operators of means of transport of measures of prevention and mitigation of the disease”, explains Anvisa.
The note reinforces, however, that the points of entry to Brazil must maintain contingency plans to face possible national and international health emergencies to guarantee the care of native or foreign citizens of suspected cases, or positive cases of covid – in addition to other diseases.
Communication to the health authority is also mandatory in the event of a public health event on board means of transport or at passenger terminals.
End of health emergency by Covid-19
In early May, the director general of OMSTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced the end of the global covid-19 emergency.
The so-called public health emergency of international concern had been in effect since January 30, 2020. The decision does not change the title of pandemic of covid-19, which was only declared in March of the same year.
Adhanom explained the reasons for the measure adopted by the WHO. In addition to the advancement of vaccination against the virus, the agency recorded a decrease in the number of deaths globally.
“For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend, with population immunity rising due to vaccination and infection,” said the WHO director-general. “The decrease in mortality and pressure on health systems in this trend has allowed most countries to return to life as we knew it before covid-19.”
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