How is the pass for vaccinated people who have started today …

Despite the criticisms formulated by different sectors, from this Wednesday, he begins to speak out Chile a mobility pass for those vaccinated against covid-19, announced this weekend by the president Sébastien Piñera, which reaches people who have completed the vaccination period after receiving the second dose of any of the coronavirus vaccines available in the country

After hearing the news, a group of ten medical and scientific societies interviewed document issuance warning of the increase in coronavirus cases over the past 14 days, as well as the collapse of the healthcare system. According to the Ministry of Health, the country has more than 1.3 million confirmed cases and a total of 28,585 deaths.

According to the latest reports, on the morning of Wednesday, Chilean health authorities reported 5,176 new cases of covid-19. As for the country’s daily positivity, it reached 12.79%, the highest in six weeks (April 14, 13.73%).

“The health care system continues to operate at the limit, expanding more than 300 percent of its capacity, and one person dies every 14 minutes from this disease in our country,” part of the statement said.

For the group of experts, the mobility pass can generate confusion among the population and a false sense of security., which is reminiscent of what happened when, over the summer, the government issued a vacation permit and was subsequently linked to the outbreak that led Chile to peak at 9,151 positive cases on April 9 .

“This new permit can be confusing, generate a feeling of security which is not such and which does not enter the line of risk communication, being contradictory to the self-care message which should be promoted, both in vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Added to this are the enormous difficulties in monitoring compliance with measures of this type “, specifies the text.

The press release stresses that “it is crucial to find the sanitary logic, that is to say the concordance between the epidemiological situation and the measures adopted” and underlines the need to “reformulate the plan step by step and improve the schedule of measures”. since “any increase in mobility will generate more infections, which unfortunately the health system does not have the capacity to support”.

And he concludes: “ The debate must now be at the center of the debate on the effective control of the pandemic and on how to achieve a scenario that tends to eliminate covid-19 in the months to come, like many countries. ‘have already succeeded. In this regard, vaccination of the whole population plays a central role, but it cannot be considered as the only measure “.

In turn, the president of the Medical College of Chile (Colmed), Izkia Siches Pastén, added his questions on the measure: “Let’s remember what happened with the holidays. Currently, about 100 people die on average every day from covid and we cannot normalize it ”.

For her part, the head of Colmed in Santiago, Francisca CrispiHe maintained that “the implementation of this measure at this epidemiological moment is a bad decision”, adding: “Lwe have seen more than 14 days of increase in daily cases, an increase in active cases and an intensive care hospital capacity at 300 percent occupancy. “

In response to criticism, the government spokesperson, Jaime Bellolio Avaria, explained that this pass “does not bring benefits, but exempts from certain restrictions those people who have already completed their vaccination and, therefore, pose a lower risk to others and to themselves.”

For his part, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, noted that the measure aims to encourage the population to be vaccinated: “We also believe that the mobility pass has this stimulus, because young people, in proportion to the elderly, were until now those who have least respected . I believe that now they are going to increase the possibility of being vaccinated, many more are going to be vaccinated, and we are going to have a better rate. “

To date, 9.8 million people have received the first dose and 7.8 million have received a double inoculation, according to a schedule that stipulated between this week and next week to move forward with people between 29 and 23 years old. .

How does the mobility pass work?

Who can get it?

This is for anyone who has completed their vaccination process and 14 days have already passed since the request.

Allowing?

That people can move freely in municipalities in the same region that are in quarantine or in transition.

Can you take interregional trips?

Yes, but only between municipalities that are at least in phase 2. In other words, if a person is in a quarantine municipality or wants to go to a quarantine municipality, he cannot do so.

Where is it obtained?

The pass is downloaded with the QR code at http://mevacuno.gob.cl. This QR code is dynamic, so if a person becomes a close contact, a suspected case, or a positive test for covid-19, then they no longer have the pass activated.

Another way to obtain it is to ask for it directly at a health center by presenting the vaccination record which proves if the person has received the two doses and respected the deadline of two weeks after the second.

What is going on with the children?

In the case of children, or under the age of 18, they will be able to access this lifting of restrictions as long as they are accompanied by their mother, father or guardian with an activated mobility permit.

What about people who have been vaccinated outside?

The vaccine that has been put outside is approved. However, the Mobility Card is not used for international travel, nor is it free of restrictions for such travel, but only for travel within Chile.