Coronavirus The corona passport came into force – How do restaurants act if there are passport-free customers at midnight?

At a press conference at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health on Friday night, it was said that restaurants do not have to remove customers from the space at midnight, but the corona passport will be checked when the customer comes to order a new drink.

15.10. 18:12

So The so-called corona passport can be introduced in Finland on Saturday. On Friday, Parliament approved an amendment to the Communicable Diseases Act, which makes it possible to require a corona passport from customers, for example in restaurants, as an alternative to restrictions. The reform will take effect at midnight on the night between Friday and Saturday.

Read more: Parliament approved the corona passport, coming into force at midnight

A corona passport means a certificate of a coroner vaccine series obtained, a negative corona test result or a coronary heart disease. The passport can be used to avoid certain otherwise applicable interest rate restrictions.

For example, restricted restaurants and nightclubs may begin to require a corona passport from their customers to enter.

According to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (STM), a coron passport could also be required for public events, gyms, swimming pools and spas, amusement parks, zoo interiors, indoor play parks and museums and exhibition spaces, among others.

However, the use of a passport is subject to restrictions on the industry using it.

For example In accordance with the current restrictions in Helsinki, restaurants must be closed no later than one night. Dispensing ends an hour earlier. The corona passport can avoid these restrictions, among other things.

On the other hand, a restaurant that utilizes a corona passport, for example, can also accept non-passport customers as long as the applicable liquor restrictions allow, it was revealed at a press conference organized by STM on Friday night.

HS asked if the restaurant could also take in passport-free customers until midnight and whether at some point in the evening such a restaurant would have to remove its customer from the premises and only take in those with a corona passport.

Undersecretary Kirsi Varhila said that in a situation like this, a restaurant does not have to throw its customers out when the serving time under the restaurant restrictions expires. The matter has been discussed with the Regional State Administrative Agency of Southern Finland.

“The restaurant does not throw customers out at midnight, but in the event that a new drink is ordered from the bar counter, it is checked whether the customer has a corona passport. So this point of the night is to be handled very flexibly here, ”Varhila said.

Restaurant company Noho Partners plans to introduce a corona passport on Saturday night at a few of its restaurants.

“We have 250 restaurants, four of which will try a corona pass at four nightclubs. We will introduce the passport on Saturday night, and it will be checked when the nightclub opens and when customers enter, ”says the CEO Aku Vikström by email.

Read more: Many nightclubs again celebrate the wee hours of the weekend

At present, in addition to the Helsinki metropolitan area, restaurant restrictions apply in Ostrobothnia, Central Ostrobothnia, Päijät-Häme, Satakunta and Southwest Finland.

The age limit in the corona passport is 16 years, ie younger people are not required to have a passport. According to the original government proposal, the age limit for the corona passport was 12 years, but the age limit was raised on a proposal from the Committee on Social Affairs and Health.

In addition, 16- to 17-year-olds and those who are unable to take vaccines for health reasons are guaranteed free corona tests from public health care.

Others have to pay their own corona test for a corona passport.

As a coron passport Finland has an EU corona certificate, which can be downloaded from the Omakanta service as a pdf file or printed on paper.

People who do not have access to Self-Stock can obtain a paper corona certificate from health care facilities.

One of the three certificates included in the corona certificate is sufficient for a coron passport: a certificate for a complete series of vaccines, a corona test result less than 72 hours old or a coronary disease that has been contracted for up to six months.

Corona passport read, for example, at the restaurant door with an app that can be downloaded to a mobile device under the responsibility of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Using the application, the camera of the mobile device reads the qr code of the corona certificate, in which case an approved or rejected mark is displayed on the screen.

If the application reads the certificate as accepted, the person’s name and the color green appear on the screen. If the certificate is rejected, no name will appear on the screen but only red.

According to THL, the reader of a corona certificate does not collect or store information on the certificates and is not able to see a person’s health information.

In connection with the verification of the corona certificate, the identity of the customer can be verified.

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