The Covid-19 Pandemy and the Challenges of Basic Sanitation Policies in Brazil "The Right to Wash Your Hands" Bruno Chancharulo de Barros, Renata Salgado Leme

Abstract

 The work seeks to examine the challenge of basic sanitation policy in Brazil, increased by the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic. The research is exploratory and descriptive, based on a bibliographic and documentary survey, drawing on the analysis of legislation, doctrine, and scientific articles available in physical and digital media. It is important to stress that to contain the pandemic, a worldwide process of research and development of new vaccines against Covid-19 was launched, consisting of several stages, which is therefore a time-consuming and high-investment process. In addition, government authorities have adopted preventive hygiene and safety protocols, such as the isolation of sick people, the cleaning of places and surfaces, the mandatory use of masks in closed and public environments, the prohibition of agglomerations, the use of alcohol in gel for hand hygiene, as well as hand washing with soap and water. Brazil, however, does not have a comprehensive basic sanitation system, nor a water supply system that reaches all social strata, which made it impossible for the low-income population to maintain preventive health protocols, exposing more citizens. poor on their own luck.