The Minister of State for Health of Sao Paulo, Jan Gornstein, announced this Thursday (9), in an interview with CNN, that there is no possibility for municipalities to impose a five-day quarantine of unvaccinated travelers against Covid-19. The measure imposed by the federal government is effective from next Saturday (11), due to the progress of the Micron variable.
“Either we implement a correct program, or we continue to not do it. I am simply making a request like this that is operationally inappropriate. I can’t create 645 municipalities [de São Paulo] Supervising the course of that individual. If he will be really at home, if he will be tested after the five days or not, as well as if he has symptoms in the five days,” Gornstein claimed.
The Ministry of Health must understand the effectiveness of the facts. Operationally, this is not possible, unsafe and incorrect. Or we demand, as all countries do, a vaccination card, and at the airport I actually restrict this person’s departure from the origin. He continued, however, to enter our country, whether through ports or airports.
According to the Federal Government decree, anyone wishing to travel to Brazil must provide proof of vaccination with immunization agents approved by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) or by the World Health Organization (WHO) or authorized by the airline responsible for the flight. The country in which you were vaccinated. The course of vaccination must be completed 14 days before departure.
Those who have not been vaccinated must self-quarantine, stating the address at which they will comply with the procedure. On the fifth day, the person should have a RT-PCR test. If the result is negative, you can leave solitude and continue your journey. The Strategic Health Information Center (CIEVS) in each district will be responsible for monitoring.
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The approval of the quarantine comes after Anvisa, in a statement, reiterated, on December 1, that it had been asking the inter-ministerial committee for the approval of quarantine or quarantine for entry into the country for travelers for more than a year.
However, the agency also requested that a full vaccination certificate be approved for entry into the country, stating that it is “more necessary given the identification of the micron variant in the national territory and subsequent efforts to contain it.” The government did not accept this measure.
According to the Minister of Health, Marcelo Quiroga, in a statement issued on December 7, countries that have identified the Micron variant “cannot punish their citizens by imposing restrictions on their citizens.” The Minister of Health also declared, “It is not possible to distinguish between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated in order to impose restrictions.”
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