{"id":26980,"date":"2022-04-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myanmarnewsgazette.com\/?guid=e76013cacb2931d3de0c448c2be8aed2"},"modified":"2022-04-18T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T00:00:00","slug":"health-official-says-brazils-public-health-emergency-will-be-lifted-in-a-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarnewsgazette.com\/health-official-says-brazils-public-health-emergency-will-be-lifted-in-a-few-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Official Says Brazil’s Public Health Emergency Will be Lifted in a Few Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
Brazil announced Sunday that, in just a few days, it will lift public health emergency measures in place for more than two years, citing a drop in the number of deaths and infections.<\/p>\n
More than 660,000 people died of the virus in Brazil, one of the hardest-hit countries, second only to the United States.<\/p>\n
But the number of infections and deaths has fallen dramatically as authorities ramped up immunization, with about 75 percent of its more than 212 million people now fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n
Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said Sunday the public health emergency declared on February 3, 2020 – when the virus started spreading globally – will soon end.<\/p>\n
“We have the conditions to announce today the end of the health emergency,” Queiroga said on television, adding that the announcement will be formalized by a decree in the next few days.<\/p>\n
“This, however, does not mean the end of COVID-19. We will continue to live with the virus,” the minister said.<\/p>\n
The decision came after Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, who famously dismissed the virus as “a little flu,\u201d asked his minister a few weeks ago to decree an “end to the pandemic” and called for a return to normalcy.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Brazil also loosened restrictions for international travelers, scrapping a 14-day quarantine for vaccinated foreign visitors.<\/p>\n
The far-right COVID-skeptic president is up for re-election this year, and has come under fire in the past for his handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Voice of America<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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