Brazil health regulator says time to ease COVID travel restrictions

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian health regulator Anvisa recommended on Monday that COVID-19 vacation restrictions be eased thanks to a fall in scenarios and deaths, demanding only total vaccination and performing away with quarantine for unvaccinated vacationers.

Men and women moving into the nation who have not been vaccinated will nevertheless want to show evidence of a negative COVID-19 exam outcome, but quarantining will be removed instantly.

Travelers’ health declarations made use of for tracing COVID conditions will no longer be essential, with rapid influence, even though tests for vaccinated travelers will be suspended from May perhaps 1, Anvisa reported.

Its suggestion ought to nevertheless be accepted by the Wellness, Justice and Public Stability, and Transport ministries.

Cruisers and cargo ships will still be topic to quarantine if COVID-19 situations are detected aboard and need to keep on being in isolation when docked, with only overall health authorities permitted to board them, Anvisa explained.

Brazil described 9,923 new situations of coronavirus and 77 deaths from COVID-19 in the previous 24 several hours, the Wellbeing Ministry mentioned. The pandemic peaked a year in the past when much more than 3,000 folks were being dying every day on average in the South American nation.

(Reporting by Anthony Boadle modifying by Richard Pullin)