A team from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Health carries out this mission in the middle of the bilateral pipeline.
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At the Rumichaca international bridge, in Ecuadorian territory, the requirement of the vaccination card for those who enter the country is a requirement that is fully met, something that does not happen on the Colombian side after the full opening of the binational pipeline.
A team from the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador carries out this mission in the middle of the bilateral pipeline, both the driver and occupants of public and private vehicles must comply with this requirement
The person who does not have the document cannot enter Ecuadorian territory, explains a nurse who performs this work and asks that his identity not be revealed. “They must present the card or the digital or physical certificate with the two vaccines,” says the official.
Authorize the total reopening of the Rumichaca international bridge for vehicles and pedestrians
A large number of travelers and tourists show the copy of the card on their cell phones, facilitating the work carried out by health workers through shifts throughout the day. The flow of automobiles is normal through the two access bridges to Tulcán and Ipiales.
Ecuadorians, Colombians and foreigners who do not have the card containing the complete vaccination scheme are returned, these people resorting to the trails to cross the border, as Carlos Ramírez, a native of Ibarra, says, who says he forgot the credential.
On the 4 Esquinas trails and carriageways of Río Carchi and Urbina, the activities carried out by motorcyclists and motorcyclists to transport citizens to the two border cities decreased by 80%, even reducing controls.
Meanwhile, the residents of Tufiño, Urbina and El Carmelo (Ecuador) are requesting the reopening of the bridges that connect these border populations by land with Chiles, Santa Fe, La Victoria, respectively, infrastructures that remain closed.
Migratory control at the Rumichaca Bridge: Colombia offers an agile process for transit from Ecuador
Meanwhile, on the Rumichaca international bridge since the reopening last Friday, 63 vaccines against COVID-19 have been applied, 25 to foreign citizens and 38 to nationals.
510 vaccines are in stock at the Rumichaca vaccination post, 240 from CanSino, 120 from Sinovac, 130 from AstraZeneca and 20 from Pfizer. Those interested can approach and free of charge access the inoculation.
Luis Morales, manager of the Luis Gabriel Dávila hospital, reported that there are only two patients in the Intensive Care Unit in this health home, 65 and 75 years old, one of them would not have received the vaccines. (I)
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