Last Monday a new health protocol came into effect in Brazil. The Health Surveillance Agency determined that Tourists between 5 and 12 years old who enter the country must have a complete anticovid vaccination schedule. If you do not have it, a 14-day quarantine is mandatory, or five days if a test is carried out and the result is negative.
The measure – which goes against the current of the relaxation of health requirements around the world – has an immediate consequence on tourism both in Brazil, which is no longer an interesting destination for tourists in the region, and in Uruguay. As the journalist specializing in tourism, Javier Lyonnet, told Radio Carve: “It is a concern at the level of travel agencies just when the demand for trips abroad begins to reactivate.”
Facing the days of carnival and Easter, family trips to the neighboring country were planned. “Families who have plans to travel with children to Brazil will have to make a change in their travel plan to meet these requirements or consider a cancellation”Held.
This is because most of the children inoculated in Uruguay do not have the complete vaccination schedule –two doses plus 14 days from the last injection–, since the vaccination began in mid-January and the second dose is 45 days after the last injection. the first (second doses started in the second week of February). Then, Only by the end of March would there be children with the complete vaccination schedule in Uruguay.
For those who travel before that time, the quarantine of the children is foreseen, and together with them the whole family. The quarantine must be 14 days but can end after five days with a negative PCR.
“Five days of quarantine on a week-long vacation makes the trip unfeasibleLyonnet said.
Asked about the protocols for those over 12 years of age, he said that the complete vaccination schedule is also mandatory. The difference is that this age group (12 to 17 years old) in Uruguay began their vaccination in June of last year, so a large part of that population is already immunized.
