With the application and the ID, the owners of commercial premises will be able to verify if the client is free of COVID-19.
The administrator of the Government Innovation Authority of Panama ( AIG ), Luis Oliva revealed to Radiography that they have created an application that will allow the owners of restaurants, supermarkets and businesses in general to verify through this and with the client's ID if it is
COVID-19 free.
Under the name of Vacucheck Oliva, he detailed this application for phones with Android or iOS platforms; And with this tool, business premises will be able to protect their customers from unnecessary exposure from someone who is infected with
COVID-19 and must be in quarantine.
"The scoop is that in the next few days we will be releasing the Vacucheck, which is the application for economic reactivation ... and in the next few days we will indicate how businesses, it is dedicated to businesses, will be able to download it and make its deployment because in the case of restaurants we protect the people who are going to eat and now that the open-air bars have opened, they will also be able to have greater controls and prevent people who must be at home due to quarantine not they are frequenting restaurants, bars or shops", Oliva explained about the application.
The AIG administrator assured that in order to use the tool, the owners of the commercial premises, once they have downloaded the application on their mobile device, must request the customer's ID at the entrance of the premises and this will read the bar code of the identification, which will indicate if the person is in the database of the Ministry of Health (
Minsa) under the orders of the entity.