The Federal Supreme Court (STF) formed a majority of favorable votes, this Thursday (17), to maintain the autonomy of federal universities to decide whether or not to require proof of vaccine against Covid-19 for students to participate in face-to-face classes.
Ministers Alexandre de Moraes, Luís Roberto Barroso, Cármen Lúcia, Rosa Weber, Edson Fachin and Gilmar Mendes followed the understanding of the rapporteur, Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, who, at the end of last year, suspended an act by the Ministry of Education that decided that institutions federal education agencies could not require proof of immunization.
The trial takes place through the virtual plenary of the STF, a form of voting in which ministers register their votes in the Supreme Court system, without having a session for the individual reading of each vote.
Ministers have until this Friday (18) to register their votes in the system.
In his decision, Lewandowski stated that health is a duty of the State.
“It is never too much to remember that health, according to the Constitution, is a right for all and an inalienable duty of the Brazilian State, guaranteed through public policies aimed at reducing the risk of disease and other aggravations, whose main pillar is the SUS” , justified.
In the opinion of the MEC, it was said that the requirement of proof of vaccination “as an indirect means of inducing compulsory vaccination can only be established by law”.
The measure was criticized by experts and educational institutions. Opposition parties then appealed to the STF against the Bolsonaro government’s act.
Source: CNN Brasil
