Children must now have proof of vaccination to enter Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Children from 5 years of age also need to prove their vaccination against covid-19 to enter Brazil. The measure, already in force, was released by the Brazilian Health Ministry on February 11.

According to the Informative Note No. 2/2022 issued by the Extraordinary Secretariat for Combating covid-19, only children who have been outside the country for more than 30 days or are travelers from countries where the available vaccination is insufficient, according to the Ministry of Health’s list, will be exempt from presenting the document.

Therefore, travelers five years old or older, whether they are Brazilian citizens, residents in Brazil, or foreigners from Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, China, Cuba, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, United States of America, Indonesia, Israel, Paraguay, Peru, United Kingdom, Switzerland, European Union, Uruguay, and Venezuela – who have already started the childhood immunization – will have the vaccine passport required.

If the traveler, older than five and younger than 18, is accompanied by a guardian who does not present proof of vaccination, they must be quarantined for 14 days, in the city of their final destination and at the address registered in the Traveler’s Health Declaration (DSV), the form that the national health agency, Anvisa, requires, to return to Brazil.

A person can only get out of quarantine earlier if asymptomatic and obtains a negative PCR or antigen test result collected on or after the fifth day of quarantine.

In addition, to travel to the Brazilian territory from abroad, it is necessary to present a negative PCR result collected up to 72 hours before departure or an antigen test performed up to 24 hours before.