Since this Thursday, December 23, the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) declared the obligation to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The vaccination certificate against the coronavirus must be presented even for to access al urban transport, according to Juan Zapata, president of the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE).
“As this is already a law of the Republic, they are no longer exhortations, this It is available to all activities at the national level, except the essential ones (…), health, education, work and public services ”, he responded to the question of whether it should be presented in urban public transport, in a televised interview this Friday.
He added that the interprovincial transport, It is regulated by the national COE, has handled protocols and has not had major inconveniences.
“We ask for the support of absolutely everyone; It must be an important document such as the cédula (identity) bring that certificate or vaccination card, obviously that allows us, I insist again, to be able to reactivate ourselves even ”, he said.
Ecuador is the first in the region to make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory; Germany, Austria and Greece plan to do so in 2022
The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) decided that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is required from this Thursday 23.
The official explained that there has been a growth in the number of infections, positivity and also excess mortality.
He justified the decision covered in the Organic Health Law and in the power of the MSP to determine this obligation through the inoculation document.
He explained that the government ministry with the police will be the those in charge of control since these entities regulate customer service in places such as bars, nightlife centers, restaurants, shopping centers.
Ecuador’s Ministry of Health declares vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory
Clarified that in case of non-compliance there will be sanctions for the premises, but not for the people, based on a ministerial agreement that regulates the establishments of attention to the public in relation to failing to comply with safety, prevention, hygiene measures (sanitary measures required).
There will be random operatives of the police departments and, by way of example, Zapata indicated that if they go to a food place And a person you do not have the vaccination document, the sanction will go to that site.
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