Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said today (March 3) that the country’s health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, has downgraded COVID-19 in Brazil to endemic status.
“Given the improvement of the epidemiological scenario and in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 1 of Law 13. 979/2020, the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, considers the option of downgrading the existing prestige of COVID-19 in Brazil to an endemic state. Bolsonaro wrote on Twitter.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health indicated that it is taking the mandatory measures to reclassify the prestige of COVID-19 in Brazil, which has lately been considered a pandemic. “The Ministry of Health is comparing the measure, in combination with other applicable ministries and agencies, taking into account the epidemiological landscape and the evolution of the virus in the country. “
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic.
The term endemic is used for cases of typical, recurrent diseases that are not unusual in a specific region, but for which there is already an effective reaction by the fitness system.
A disease can start as an epidemic and expand into a pandemic once it has reached global levels, which is when a safe agent spreads across multiple countries or continents, affecting a giant number of people.
If confirmed, the move goes against the standards set by the WHO, the framework that defines when a disease becomes a global threat, and which still considers COVID-19 a pandemic.
If treated as an endemic disease, COVID-19 will no longer be a health emergency, so restrictions such as mask-wearing, bans on large gatherings, vaccine passports, and medical screenings, for example, may no longer be mandatory.
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