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The requirement to present the card with the double vaccine against COVID-19 to enter public closed spaces will apply to all people from 12 years of age and over at the national level and will be in force as of Friday, December 10. This was announced by Gabriela Jiménez, National Director of Immunizations of the Ministry of Health (Minsa). This measure will not only be for adults.

“All people who by age have already been vaccinated or should have been vaccinated will have to present their vaccination card. That includes those 12 years of age and older who enter public or private establishments. Everyone will have to show their digital vaccination card or certificates “Jiménez detailed in an interview with the Andean Agency.

It should be noted that this announcement was made by the Minister of Health last week and specified that the rule was going to be published in the newspaper El Peruano, but this has not happened so far.

Jiménez assured that the announced measure will invariably be applied as of tomorrow, December 10, and not on December 15, as was initially announced. “The date has been advanced due to epidemiological reasons. In recent weeks an increase in cases has been reported, first in 6 and then in 9 regions. We have several provinces that are currently at risk and alert to an increase in cases. We are not in the third wave, but there is a high risk of occurrence, therefore everything begins to rule as of tomorrow “, He said.

Although the economically active population that is mobilized daily is over 18 years of age, there are adolescents who carry out productive activities and therefore must also comply with this requirement of the presentation of the vaccination card that certifies the two doses.

Let us remember that minors, from 12 to 17 years old, began to be immunized against the coronavirus as of November 5 throughout the country.

In the case of companies

Gabriela Jiménez explained that the requirement of the vaccination card also covers those who work inside closed spaces. “The directive of the Ministry of Health applies to work centers. For this reason, it is established that public and private organizations that have more than 10 workers must do all the respective procedures so that their work areas comply with the norm and establish the surveillance and monitoring of this “, Held.

He announced that he has spoken with Sunafil and the Ministry of Labor so that the health and safety committees of the companies monitor their compliance, highlighting that the prevention of COVID-19 cases is not something new.

They will continuously modify the QR code

The National Director of Immunizations of the Minsa reminded the population that the directive of the Ministry of Health on the requirement to present the vaccination card clearly details that the physical and electronic version of it can be presented. “We have created an application and we are going to have it all, in such a way that it is easy to access and verify to enter the work space or where the control is going to be done. It’s very fast”.

Each organization, entity or company will be responsible for monitoring compliance with the standard. “We have already practiced it during the first and second waves. The temperature was measured, time was given for hand hygiene, social distancing. These same people are the ones who will be trained to control the new measures “. Jiménez warned that any anomalous situation that is detected during the verification of the vaccines will be reported immediately.

“The General Office of Information Technologies of the Minsa is going to make a continuous modification of the QR code. This in order to prevent someone who (traffics) or charges me to give me a forged card (the false document) will not last more than one day, because the next day that will change ”.

He recommended to save the image of the QR of the Card as a photograph on the mobile or cell phone or otherwise download it every time a guard or supervisor requests it at the entrance of each establishment. you go provisions).

“We appeal to the trust of citizens and good behavior, in that we are all going to be responsible for carrying the card, for having a true image of what my personal safety means. If for any reason I try to fool those who are supervising me, basically I am deceiving myself and I am exposing myself to the risk (of a possible contagion of COVID-19), “he said.

The specialist regretted that there is still a percentage of the population that refuses to be vaccinated and puts the rest of the citizenry at risk.

“An IPSOS study shows that between 12% to 15% of the population is being very reluctant and negative (to vaccination), in tune with some anti-vaccine movements. However, 85% of people trust us and that keeps us very positive, ”explained Jiménez.

He specified that, to date, 23 million 200 thousand first doses of the vaccine have been placed and today it will close with 19 and a half million second doses placed.

“We are very little of 70% of the population protected with the two doses in the whole country,” he noted.

The Minsa informed that you can obtain your vaccination card through the web. Download the application for free. https://gis.minsa.gob.pe/CarneVacunacion/. It is also available in the APP Store.

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