As of November 16, all citizens over 18 years of age must present the covid-19 vaccination card to enter any leisure event that involves crowding, so that crowded places are safer and you can be sure that the assistants who are inside are vaccinated and can remove the mask.
Even until November 15, there will be pedagogy about it and it is not necessary to have the complete scheme but it will be valid with at least one dose of the scheme.
(Step by step of how to download the digital vaccination certificate).
The determination is explained in Decree 1408 of November 3, 2021 and indicates that they apply to places and leisure activities, This means that to enter a church, to the worship that everyone has a right, it is not necessary. But if a parish event is going to be held there, it will have to be demanded.
Also at events in open spaces, the Decree establishes that it will not be necessary in those that allow a meter of distance between people to be maintained. It will only apply to those in which this distance cannot be met and people must be interacting with a large group of people for a long time.
(It is a fact: vaccination card will be mandatory for events).
For example, it is required in all massive events: concerts, fairs and places such as restaurants, bars, gastrobars, cinemas, discotheques, dance venues, concerts, casinos, bingo halls, or stadiums, amusement and theme parks, museums, but it will be constantly being evaluated if it is necessary to extend the measure to others spaces. In the future it may be a requirement to get on a plane or enter churches.
In the case of hotels, it must be requested for private events, receptions or similar. It is not required for hosting services. Shopping centers should not request the vaccination card to enter the shopping center, it will only be requested in spaces where public or private events are held, in the cinema area, or theme parks.
In the meetings that are held in the social or communal rooms of the residential complexes, the vaccination card or the digital certificate must be requested. Likewise in any event that takes place in the common areas such as social gatherings or celebration of novenas.
The presidential decree of public order to which all mayors of the country must adhere, therefore, they bear the main responsibility for due compliance in all territories.
Also regardless of requiring the vaccination card at the entrance of the events, the biosecurity measures must continue to be implemented (hand hygiene, use of face masks and ventilation management).
In the case of foreign vaccination cards, they are also valid and will also be requested, whether physical or digital, as at the moment there is a delay in loading Paiweb with the vaccination process, the main document will be physical, but in the future the QR code will be the officially established one. So people who have a vaccination card from abroad will be able to use it, but they must approach the IPS so that they can give them the national one and obtain the respective QR code.
The ministry pointed out that there are 17 million vaccines in inventory distributed throughout the country and to complete 70% of the Colombian population, which is the objective of the National Vaccination Plan, there are 5.7 million Colombians who apply the first one. dose.
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