Catalonia assumes that it will have to expand the use of the covid passport

“The measure is not closed, at least not immediately“. These are the words of the Government spokesperson, Patrícia Plaja., About the extension of the covid passport, implying that, if in the coming days and weeks, the figures of the pandemic continue to worsen, and there is a macro- horizon on the horizon. Bridge, in December, this extension of the requirement of the document accrediting the vaccination will be required.

“We are aware that this may imply a limitation of rights, but if this decision is made it is to avoid tightening the restrictions, such as the decrease in capacity, which also lead to a deficit of these same rights,” explained Plaja.

The leisure employer asks for legal certainty

The Catalan Federation of Associations of Restoration and Musical Activities (Fecasarm) has demanded “legal security” to the Generalitat so that the nightlife sector can work with foresight in the event that new restrictions against covid are approved. “Soon they will begin to sell tickets for New Year’s Eve and reservations for company dinners will be made, which makes it more necessary not to be aware of what restrictions the Procicat will approve each week,” the employer’s association said in a statement. On the other hand, Fecasarm goes with good eyes extend the covid certificate to restoration provided capacity and hours are not reduced. “If not, it would be producing unattainable lethal damage,” he defends.

And is that the coronavirus continues to rise in Catalonia, with twice as many infections as two weeks ago and an increase in hospital tension Los concrete data of this tuesday, provided by Salut, indicate that this hospital increase continues, both in admitted and in ucis, which are close to one hundred. 70% of those admitted are not vaccinated. Specifically, the number of admitted is 386, compared to 376 yesterday. In the critical units there are 96 people, while in the last statement there were 90.

Euskadi, Valencia and Navarra

Catalonia is not the only community that is considering the extension of the covid passport requirement. The Minister of Health of the Basque Government, Gotzone Sagardui, has announced that in Basque Country those will be suspended activities or events in which prevention measures cannot be guaranteed and the TSJPV will be requested authorization to require the certificate Covid-19 in places of nightlife or restaurants.

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The Valencian Community It also has the purpose of implementing the mandatory nature of the so-called covid passport in all those places “where it is reasonable” and always trying to “flee from unnecessary restrictions”. This has been assured this Tuesday by the ‘president’ of the Generalitat, the socialist Ximo Puig. The head of the Valencian Government has explained that the Generalitat Lawyers Office is studying the legal coverage to accelerate the implementation of the obligation to present the vaccination certificate in certain spaces and has said that when there is a definitive report it will be made public and communicated to the sectors affected.

Likewise, the managing director of the Institute of Public and Labor Health of Navarra, Marian Nuin, said this Tuesday that the possibility of requesting the COVID certificate is being studied in the provincial community due to the increase in cases and a situation that, she said, “is not favorable.” “It is a situation that we are monitoring a lot and that is not favorable,” he said. In addition to studying the possibility of implementing the covid passport and seeing “what tools we have at our disposal to contain the situation”, Nuin has made an appeal to individual prevention measures, as well as to vaccinating people who have not yet done so.