The shopping malls, banks, supermarkets, airports, restaurants and other closed public areas They began to demand this Friday in Peru the certificate of the anticovid-19 vaccine for those who enter, when a decree that outrages anti-vaccine activists came into force.
Officials of the Ministry of Health and of the municipalities supervised in the most important commercial areas of Lima, as well as in the main cities of the country, the fulfillment of this measure that seeks to reduce infections in a country hard hit by the pandemic.
To enter the businesses or agencies of public entities, the vaccination certificate must be shown, on paper or on the cell phone.
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The 71% of Peruvians support the measure, while the 27% disagree, according to pollster Datum. Locals that violate this rule will not be sanctioned for now, but fines will be established soon, officials warned.
What’s more, the certificate is a requirement to enter airports and board national and international flightsAlthough those who are not vaccinated may travel if they present a PCR test with a negative result of less than 72 hours.
Interprovincial bus passengers they must also show the certificate, but it is not required in urban buses and minibuses or in the elevated metro in Lima.
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Percentage of vaccinated
At the entrances to shopping centers, banks, department stores and supermarkets in Lima this Friday hThere were vigilantes demanding the vaccination certificate.
The document is mandatory to enter all businesses -from supermarkets to small neighborhood stores-, but not all met the measure.
Several businesses near the busy Parque Kennedy in the tourist district of Miraflores, in the south of Lima, did not ask for the certificate. This led an irate customer to reprimand a cafeteria waitressobserved an AFP journalist.
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Pharmacies, hospitals and health centers are exempted from this obligation, according to the decree issued in mid-November. Initially the measure would take effect from December 15, but was overtaken by contagions of the omicron variant detected in other countries.
Peru does not register cases of omicron, but Japan confirmed on December 1 a case of this variant in a passenger from Lima. The people who were with him in Peru were tested and none had covid-19.
The Peruvian authorities trust that the certificate requirement it will encourage the unvaccinated population to be immunized.
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So far 19.5 million Peruvians have received the two doses of the vaccine, the 70% of the target population, according to the Ministry of Health. Peru uses Sinopharm and Pfizer vaccines.
More than 201,000 dead, the Andean country of 33 million inhabitants has the highest death rate from the pandemic in the world: 6,111 per million inhabitants, according to the AFP balance based on official figures. In total, more than two million people they got infected.
“Violation of rights”
The obligation to present the certificate outraged anti-vaccine activists, among them the conservative lawyer Beatriz Mejía Mori, who filed a judicial appeal against the decree, stating that “it violates the fundamental rights of those who do not want to be vaccinated ”.
Martín Moreno, a tourist vehicle driver in Lima who refuses to be vaccinated, affirmed that the authorities should not prevent him from entering public closed areas because “There are articles of the Constitution that protect me.”
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“The vaccine has many consequences,” Moreno told AFP to justify his rejection.
“I am willing to lose my life for not getting vaccinated”, declared to the radio RPP César, 60 years old and who only identified himself with his first name, in northern Piura, one of the Peruvian regions hardest hit by the pandemic. (I)
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