Brazil notified that it already has five cases of the Omicron variant in its territory

Brazil notified that it already has five cases of the Omicron variant in its territory

The other three are from the state of São Paulo, also Brazilians from South Africa with a stopover in Ethiopia.

In the midst of the announcement of these cases, the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, lashed out at the mayors and governors who are demanding a vaccine certificate to enter closed places and suspending massive end-of-year events and warned about the lack of need to apply new strict quarantines.

“We cannot leave a libertarian party, New Year and Carnival situation for a situation of total closure of our economy, because we already know the consequence of it,” said Queiroga.

President Jair Bolsonaro said the same at the same time in the Planalto Palace, in which he affirmed that “neither Brazil nor the world can endure another confinement”, after describing both the virus and unemployment as “deadly.”

The Health Minister affirmed that vaccination “allows us to face Ómicron and other variants.”

The state of São Paulo canceled the New Year’s Eve party on Avenida Paulista and suspended the flexibility of wearing masks with the new variant, as well as 15 other tourist cities such as Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Recife and Salvador.

Rio de Janeiro determined the requirement of a vaccine passport to enter all the social and commercial activities of the wonderful city to avoid a new outbreak, although it maintained its traditional end-of-the-year festivities on the beaches.

Source From: Ambito

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