Health regulator no longer requires Covid-19 test for entry into Brazil

The national health regulator (Anvisa) has revoked the two ordinances issued during the pandemic with sanitary measures for foreigners entering the country.

With the revocation, Brazilians or foreigners entering Brazil are no longer required to present proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test.

According to Anvisa, the end of the requirements was motivated by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) decision to declare the end of the state of Public Health Emergency of International Importance, which had been in effect since March 2020.

The agency passed the guidelines to airlines, border crossings, and port and airport operators in a technical instruction published on May 23.

“This scenario [end of the international state of emergency] enabled the determination that covid-19 is now an established and ongoing health problem (…)”

‘Thus, Brazil no longer requires from travelers of international origin the proof of vaccination against covid-19 or presentation of a negative test result, as well as the implementation by the administrators of passenger terminals and operators of means of transport of measures for prevention and mitigation [reduction] of the disease,” said the technical note.

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