The administrator of the Authority for Government Innovation of Panama (AIG), Luis Oliva, announced Sunday that from the first week of September could be implementing the pilot of the QR code of mobility safe.

"It is very likely that in the coming weeks, I would say that in the first week of September we will already see some important drivers, especially in sporting events, so I think that in the first week of September we will see a first driver of the Safe mobility QR,” said Oliva in the Sunday Open Debate program.

He explained that the use of this QR code could increase the number of people who can enter the different premises, being one of the requests made by the Association of Bars and Restaurants, as well as other organizations.

“We have developed, from the beginning it is a vision that we had, a safe mobility QR because we knew that other countries that were more advanced in vaccination were doing it, for us it is very important, and above all because we have received from the Association of Bars and Restaurants and different organizations, who want to expand the capacity of the different places, especially for closed areas ... the person showing it will be able to know the restaurant that this person is correctly vaccinated and could, according to the proposal that they They make us be in a capacity inside a commercial premises,” explained the administrator of the AIG.

He added that in addition, Panama continues to carry out evaluations with the European Union so that this QR code is accepted in the countries that make it up.

“We are very advanced with them, especially with the fact of the people who were vaccinated in Panama and this will only work with the people who were vaccinated in Panama, if a person was vaccinated in the United States, we cannot issue a COVID-19 vaccination certification, but it would have to be the United States, however, this will allow Panamanians, residents and tourists who have been vaccinated in Panama to go to the European Union with this QR code and be accepted,” he expressed.

He clarified that the information contained in this code would not be being shared, but between any database, and this is guaranteed through the data protection law.

"There is a data protection law that is already in force, that each of the platforms that we make has this disclaimer where people accept and indicate what this information will be used for, we cannot use information from a person that he placed for vaccination for other purposes because that would already violate the data protection law, I think it is important that we know that the citizen is the owner of his information and at the moment he wants to do some procedure and service with the State he he shares it but only for that purpose,” he pointed out.