Since scientists South Africans identified and disseminated a new variant of the coronavirus on Thursday, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries recommended the suspension and banned flights from southern countries. Africa.
On Saturday the 27th, the Brazil also published an ordinance banning international flights originating from or passing through South Africa, Botswana, Essuatini, Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe in the past 14 days. According to the ordinance, the entry of foreigners coming from or passing through these countries is prohibited.
The entry of Brazilians, however, is not suspended. However, Brazilian travelers traveling to or traveling through these African countries in the last 14 days before embarking, upon entering Brazilian territory, must remain in quarantine for 14 days in the city of their final destination.
Even though Brazilians who are in South Africa are authorized to return to the country, they cannot find return flights. On Sunday morning, 28, Brazilian Rodrigo Hauck, 36, and his wife Maria Carolina Papadam Hauck, 33, tried to arrange another flight to return by German airline Lufthansa, one of the few that was still flying from the international airport of Cidade do Cabo, with Ethiopian Airlines. Emirates, Qatar and TAAG suspended flights.
In South Africa since October, the couple, their two-year-old daughter and Hauck’s parents would return to Brazil this Tuesday, the 30th, but their flight was cancelled. “We’re talking to Airbnb to make our stay more flexible, but there are people who can’t stay here,” he said. “The sad thing is to see how the country is being punished for discovering the new variant.”
Wagner Tavares Buono, 31, has been in South Africa since January of last year, when he started a postdoctoral internship at the University of the Witwatersrand in…