Triple control to verify documentation of anti-COVID-19 inoculation in land terminals

Users of inter and intraprovincial transport at the national level, they already present their vaccination document physical or digital against COVID-19 to travel. Tourism transport is also included.

The measure came into force from this Wednesday, January 12 by a provision of the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE) due to the increase in infections. Initially it is for those over 12 years old. From next Monday, those over 5 years of age are included.

The person must present in the cooperative windows transport your identity card and vaccination document so that you can sell a ticket.

Employees of transport companies that cover the route from Quito to various destinations, in the land terminal of Quitumbe, south of the city, they mentioned that if the user does not present their document you will not be able to scroll. They also verify that you have the two complete doses and the identification number.

In case a third person If you go to buy a ticket, you must carry the inoculation card and the citizenship card of the person who is going to travel.

The drivers and helpers They must also carry the immunization document.

Passengers were shown according to the measure as a mechanism for the safety of citizens as well as to avoid contracting the disease.

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In the case of the capital of the Republic there are five terminals, two interprovincial: Quitumbe, to the south and Carcelén, to the north, and three micro-regions: Marin, In the city center, Coca River and La Ofelia, to the north, where there is an intraprovincial modality towards destinations such as Guayllabamba, Tumbaco valley, Pifo, Amaguaña, Sangolquí.

In the five terminals there are approximately 50,000 users per day. There will be various controls.

The first check It is at the ticket offices because the transport cooperatives must – prior to the sale of the ticket – request both the identity card and the vaccination card; the second check -random- is in the operating areas with the highest concentration of users and before the drivers leave from the terminal the inoculation document is requested to enable the frequency.

Mirna Mendoza, manager of terminals and parking lots of the Metropolitan Public Mobility and Public Works Company (Epmmop) of the Municipality of Quito, commented that the controls with other entities such as the National Transit Agency (ANT) and the Metropolitan Transit Agency (AMT), they will be random.

On a preliminary balance no news has been reported at the controls, according to Daniel Cárdenas, deputy director of the ANT.

That entity indicated that the penalty is $ 1,700 (4 unified basic salaries) to transport operators.

“Fortunately, people have vaccination cards at hand, we know that there is a high vaccination rate nationwide and we believe that this it will not be an inconvenience for people to mobilize“, He said.

If a person buys the ticket via internet, Cárdenas mentioned that the transport operators, when registering the passenger, must verify on the page of the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) that they have the complete scheme.

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For him tourist transport Immunization documents are requested before the trip begins.

In the event that a person cannot be vaccinated due to a medical condition, for Cárdenas he could present a endorsing certificate and a screening test of COVID-19.

At the national level there are 68 land terminals, There are 198 interprovincial companies, 220 intraprovincial cooperatives (within the province, between cantons) and 271 for tourism. It is estimated that there are 5 million passengers per month.