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Caracas, Oct 8 (EFE) .- The Government of Venezuela prepares a traffic light system to detect people infected with covid-19 and those who are vaccinated against this disease and thus allow access to public places, announced this Friday the president Nicolás Maduro.
“We are working on the basis that we have already made progress in vaccination, and we are going to make more progress this coming week; we are preparing a traffic light for access to some public places, an access traffic light,” Maduro said in a broadcast on the channel. state VTV.
In that sense, the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, explained that it will work through phones with an “android” system.
As indicated, at the entrances of public places there will be people with a cell phone in hand who will ask citizens for their identity card numbers to verify if they are vaccinated, healthy or infected with covid-19.
“Once you add it to the phone or read the QR, there you will be able to know if the person is positive for covid; obviously that is the red light (…) then there is the green light, it will turn on when it tells us that the person is vaccinated and can then enter the establishment, “he explained.
While the yellow light is the one that will indicate that the person is healthy, but not vaccinated.
“Already the Minister of Commerce -Eneida Laya- will make the respective contacts with the Chamber of Restaurants so that it is established that only vaccinated people should enter and, obviously, that they are not infected with covid-19,” said Rodríguez.
Meanwhile, Maduro added that they expect this traffic light to start working first in restaurants and from the third week of October.
This new measure is added to the so-called “7 + 7” system, which consists of allowing the opening of shops and entertainment venues for a week, followed by another seven days in which the economy is partially interrupted, although it has not been fulfilled for months. in a thorough way.
The Venezuelan government applies these methods as a way to prevent infections in the country that already accumulate in 379,352 cases, while deaths are estimated at 4,576 since the pandemic began.
As Maduro said today, Venezuela has “achieved the goal of 50%” of the “general” population vaccinated against covid-19, without specifying whether it refers to people who have received a single dose or the two necessary for it to be considered that an individual is immunized.
However, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), in Venezuela 6,190,629 citizens have been vaccinated with full doses, that is, 20.6%, while 9,926,613 have received only the first injection, which represents 30% of Venezuelans. EFE
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