Santa Catarina -the border state with Misiones whose capital is the island of Florianopolis And it also has Camboriú, Itapema and Praia do Rosa as favorites of the Argentines – it is, according to specialists from the local federal university, at a time of “out of control of the pandemic” and that is why vacations and licenses for public hospital doctors and nurses were suspended. To this was added the lack of complete data on Covid-19 in the database of the Ministry of Health since December 11 by a hacker attack, which prevents having the real dimension of what is happening in the country, which is the second in number of deaths from the pandemic and the third in infections in the world.
Brazil is dealing with a double crisis inherited from December: on the one hand, an unprecedented outbreak of influenza in the main cities of the country and, on the other, the explosion of contagions generated by the Omicron variant of coronavirus. To this, in addition, it is added that for Brazilians the highest season of their vacations runs from December 26 to January 3.
In this complex setting, Argentines who traveled to spend their vacations must present a certificate of two doses of vaccines to cross by land, plus a PCR test to arrive by plane. In any case, once in the country many suffer and witness the greatest pressure on the public and private health system since the worst month of the pandemic, April 2021.
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“With lines in the health units, Santa Catarina is experiencing a moment of lack of control of the pandemic, taking into account that there were a series of crowds with the end of the year parties marked by the arrival of tourists from both Brazil and abroad, with Omicron circulation and Influenza A H3N2“explained the epidemiologist Alexandra Boing, of the Department of Public Health of the University of Santa Catarina (UFSC).
The image of crowded beaches In the most mobilized week in Brazil, it was also replicated in the favorites of the Argentines: “Floripa”, Canasvieras, Barra de Lagoa and Ingleses. The lack of control was evidenced in countless images. One of them was the year-end show of the popular sertanejo singer Gustavo Lima, who will be fined for having played in front of some 100,000 people at the Orlando Scarpelli stadium without complying with the protocols for the use of a chinstrap.
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In parallel, Spa Camboriu -that is its official name- this year expanded its strip of sand on the beach to receive more tourists and prevent the skyscrapers of the so-called “New Brazilian Dubai” from shading the shore. As expected, it received more tourists than usual.
Last Wednesday, its primary care system collapsed from cases of people with symptoms both influenza and Covid-19 and the tests were sold out in the pharmacies. But the panorama for days that was anticipated complicated. For this reason, the main cities suspended the end-of-year street parties because of the pandemic, which according to specialists fueled the organization of private events and social gatherings without protocols.
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Rio de Janeiro, the wonderful city that just announced the suspension of the popular street carnival, made a limited fireworks launch party on Copacabana beach -without public transport and police barriers to prevent the passage of cars-, but still saw Covid-19 cases shoot up with Ómicron, a variant that already represents more than half of the registered cases.
Faced with this advance, the authorities continue to impose restrictions: tourists must present a vaccination passport to enter the classic attractions from Rio, such as Christ the Redeemer, the Sugarloaf Mountain or the Museo do Futuro, in the port area. Meanwhile, in the tourist area around Rio so chosen by Argentines -Buzios, Arraial do Cabo, Paraty and Ilha Grande-, the arrival of thousands of tourists It caused a massive contagion that exhausted the syrups and anti-flu in all the pharmacies.
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A similar situation is living Salvador, the capital of Bahia, and its area of influence such as Praia do Forte or Morro de Sao Paulo. Before there were 30 average daily cases of coronavirus, but yesthey reached 112 on the 3rd and 111 on the 4th of January, a number believed to be underestimated due to a lack of testing.
Fortaleza, the capital of CearáWhere to go to go to the paradisiacal beaches of Jericoacara or Canoa Quebrada, is another case. The positive rate was 1% until December 5, but a month later the airport test center saw an increase of 11% and the bus terminal 20%. In a recent chronicle, the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reflected the cases of Brazilian domestic tourists who spent New Year’s Eve in other cities and returned, knowing that they were positive for Covid-19, to their homes, spending hours in airports, airplanes and buses, all closed spaces.
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