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Brazil and Uruguay will no longer ask for Covid-19 tests from vaccinated travelers
The governments of Brazil and Uruguay decided this Saturday to no longer require the negative result of a 72-hour anticovid test prior to the trip for visitors, national or foreign, arrive in the country and will only validate the vaccination certificate.
In the Brazilian case, in a resolution of the Ministries of Civil Affairs, Health, Justice and Infrastructure, published in the Official diary Friday night, starting this Saturday The valid document to enter the country will be the printed or digital certificate of the complete vaccination cycle with more than 14 days.
The Traveler’s Health Declaration, which was a form required by the airlines before embarking abroad to Brazil, will no longer be required.
The negative result of a test by molecular biology technique PCR-RT or antigens will only be required for people who do not have the complete vaccination cycle of 2 doses or single application in the case of the Belgian immunizer Janssen, from the American multinational Johnson & Johnson.
The rules that free travelers to Brazil from undergoing the SARS CoV-2 virus detection swab, despite being immunized as was the case until the day before, will be required for entry by air, land and sea.
The nation has managed to immunize 70.9 percent of its 213 million inhabitants with two doses of vaccines.
URUGUAYAN CASE
In the case of Uruguay, the measure, taken by the country’s president, Luis Lacalle Pouin a Council of Ministers and embodied in a decree, responds, according to the legal text, to a new evaluation “of the measures adopted and the evolution of the pandemic that motivates the national health emergency situation”.
According to the decree, henceforth The negative result of a test by PCR-RT molecular biology technique or antigens will only be requested from “those who have not had the Covid-19 disease within the last 10 to 90 days prior to shipment or arrival in the country and do not prove to have received the single dose or both doses”.
Although these requirements do not apply to children under 6 years of age, Those who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 or had symptoms of the disease within 7 days prior to entry will also not be able to enter the South American country.
While those vaccinated who do not register recent symptoms will not need to undergo the coronavirus detection swab, the obligations to wear a mask during the trip and arrival or to have health coverage upon entry will remain in force, among other formal provisions set by the pandemic. .
According to the latest update of the web monitor of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), the country has 83.96 percent and 80.38 percent of its population vaccinated with one and two doses against Covid-19, respectively.