From media reports: KSU The Sentinel Newspaper reported that on Friday (14 May), the Brazilian government announced the temporary suspension of flights from India, South Africa and the United Kingdom, due to the risk of the spread of the variant of the coronavirus identified in the Asian country. as B.1.617 and classified as being of global concern by the WHO.  

The measure is valid for 14 days and aims to avoid the epidemiological impact that the new strain could cause in Brazil, which, according to the initiative of the media consortium, reached the mark of 432,785 deaths and 15,521,313 cases of Covid on Friday.  

The suspension of flights, according to a decree published in the additional edition of the Official Journal this Friday, follows a recommendation from Anvisa (National Agency for Health Surveillance).  

"The authorization to travel abroad to Brazil is temporarily suspended, coming from or in transit from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Republic of Africa South and Republic of India over the past fourteen years. days,” says the ordinance.