One of Brazil's most celebrated¹ tourist destinations, the paradisiacal archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, has announced it is reopening to outsiders – as long as they have had Covid-19.

 

巴西最著名的旅游目的地之一、天堂般的费尔南多·迪诺罗尼亚群岛宣布重新开放，然而只有曾经感染过新冠病毒的游客才能上岛旅游。
 

 

Tourists have been banned from the UNESCO World Heritage site, which Charles Darwin visited in 1832, since late March when the pandemic forced many parts of Brazil into partial shutdown.

 

Since then more than 120,000 Brazilians have died, the world's second highest death toll², and President Jair Bolsonaro faces accusations³ of catastrophically mismanaging the crisis by undermining containment⁴ measures.

 

But from Tuesday visitors will be allowed into Fernando de Noronha, 211 miles off Brazil's north-eastern coast, if they can prove they have been infected and recovered.

 

The results of two types of test – PCR virus tests and IgG antibody tests – will be accepted if conducted at least 20 days before arrival.

 

Guilherme Rocha, the archipelago's administrator⁵, said: "In this first stage of reopening, only tourists who have already had Covid and have recovered and are immune to the disease will be authorized⁶ [since] they can neither transmit it, nor be infected again."

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