Justice Rosa Weber, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), scheduled an extraordinary virtual session of the full Court to judge whether the vaccine passport is mandatory. Rosa, who is vice president of the STF, made the decision because the president, Luiz Fux, is outside Brazil.
The session will start on Wednesday, December 15th, at midnight, and can go on until 23:59 on December 16th.
“Lawyers and attorneys may present oral arguments until 12.14.2021 (at 23:59)”, says the order of the minister.
Rosa welcomes the request of colleague Luís Roberto Barroso, rapporteur of the case, who decided that travelers arriving in Brazil must present proof of vaccination, but asked the plenary to evaluate the issue.
Barroso took the decision as part of an action proposed by the Rede Sustentabilidade party. The minister says that “in a country like Brazil, where authorities face difficulties even in monitoring prisoners with electronic ankle bracelets, quarantine must be understood with relative value and applied with extreme caution.”
Barroso says that the federal government must fully accept the suggestions of the Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) on the adoption of the vaccine passport and says that the ordinance that determined a five-day quarantine for travelers “contains wording that can lead to ambiguous understandings and divergent, and that need to be avoided”.
*With information from Thais Arbex
Reference: CNN Brasil
