The federal government will have to provide information about the act that determined the holding of public consultation for vaccination against Covid-19 in children aged between 5 and 11 years. The determination is made by minister Carmen Lúcia, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), who established a period of five days for the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, and the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, to manifest themselves.
The decision responds to the Allegation of Non-Compliance with Fundamental Precept (ADPF) 929, in which the National Confederation of Metallurgical Workers (CNTM) questions the intention of the consultation, stating that the Executive intends to “defer the imposition of vaccine on the population between 5 and 11 years old under the pretext of wanting to listen to the population”.
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Carmen Lúcia understood that there is an urgent need to offer effective measures to combat Covid-19 for this audience as well, especially with the dissemination of the Ômicron variant. For her, there is an evident risk of damage to the health and lives of children and adolescents and the entire population.
“Provisions and administrative omissions that neglect or postpone, with ascertainable and harmful consequences, the measures necessary to guarantee the right to health can generate serious effects for people and society as a whole, and therefore, their authors are liable. “CÁRMEN LÚCIA, MINISTER OF STF
Statements by the Union’s attorney general, Bruno Bianco, and the Republic’s attorney general, Augusto Aras, were also requested. The minister requested urgency and priority in the response, “regardless of the period of forensic recess”.
According to the Ministry of Health, the public consultation should close on January 4, and the following day, the folder will provide information on the decision regarding the immunization of children and adolescents to the STF, in another determination on the same topic . In it, Minister Ricardo Lewandowski accepted the request made by the AGU (Attorney-General of the Union) that the federal government only disclose on January 5 whether it will allow vaccination against Covid-19 in children.
The federal government will have to provide information about the act that determined the holding of public consultation for vaccination against Covid-19 in children aged between 5 and 11 years. The determination is made by minister Carmen Lúcia, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), who established a period of five days for the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, and the Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, to manifest themselves.
The decision responds to the Allegation of Non-Compliance with Fundamental Precept (ADPF) 929, in which the National Confederation of Metallurgical Workers (CNTM) questions the intention of the consultation, stating that the Executive intends to “defer the imposition of vaccine on the population between 5 and 11 years old under the pretext of wanting to listen to the population”.
read more:
Carmen Lúcia understood that there is an urgent need to offer effective measures to combat Covid-19 for this audience as well, especially with the dissemination of the Ômicron variant. For her, there is an evident risk of damage to the health and lives of children and adolescents and the entire population.
“Provisions and administrative omissions that neglect or postpone, with ascertainable and harmful consequences, the measures necessary to guarantee the right to health can generate serious effects for people and society as a whole, and therefore, their authors are liable. “CÁRMEN LÚCIA, MINISTER OF STF
Statements by the Union’s attorney general, Bruno Bianco, and the Republic’s attorney general, Augusto Aras, were also requested. The minister requested urgency and priority in the response, “regardless of the period of forensic recess”.
According to the Ministry of Health, the public consultation should close on January 4, and the following day, the folder will provide information on the decision regarding the immunization of children and adolescents to the STF, in another determination on the same topic . In it, Minister Ricardo Lewandowski accepted the request made by the AGU (Attorney-General of the Union) that the federal government only disclose on January 5 whether it will allow vaccination against Covid-19 in children.
