Have you had Covid-19 and need a vacation? So that’s what you’ve been waiting for as the picturesque island of Fernando de Noronha is once again open to the public.
As of this week, Brazil’s popular tourist destination is open to visitors, however, if you have ever had a coronavirus.
To make a stopover at the UNESCO World Heritage site, tourists must pretend to have become inflamed with the disease and have fully recovered from it.
They will need to submit one of two types of tests, PCR virus tests or IgG antibody tests, which must be performed at least 20 days before arriving on the island.
Guilherme Rocha, the archipelago’s administrator, says the local government is desperately seeking to revive the island’s economy, 211 miles off Brazil’s northeast coast.
He said: “At this first level of reopening, it will only be allowed [because] tourists who have already had Covid and who have recovered and are immune to the disease will be transmitted or inflamed again.”
But while some called for caution after a Hong Kong man re-infected with fatal illness after recovering in March, Rocha said the resolution to reopen science-based dominance and consider it safe.
He said: “What we’ve seen is that these cases of reinfection are very rare and very debatable. There are doubts.
“The existing understanding is that whoever has already had this disease is immune. So that’s the protocol we’re following.”
The island has around 3,500 permanent citizens and is closed to foreigners on 21 March.
Residents departing for the mainland were not allowed to return until June after the network transmission was eradicated.
Rocha added: “So far we have had zero deaths – precisely because of the controls introduced by the government.”
This occurs when Public Health Wales suggested that all passengers on board a recent TUI flight self-isolate after seven other people tested positive for coronavirus.
Fitness signs everyone on the flight from Zante to Cardiff to stay home and take a test.
They claimed that the infections came from 3 other teams aboard flight TUI 6215, which landed in Wales on 25 August.
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