The Ministry of Transport did not see "great difficulties" for Russian Railways and aviation due to QR codes

The HEAD of the Ministry of Transport, Vitaly Savelyev, said that there were no difficulties in checking the QR code for buying plane and train tickets. According to him, passenger traffic has almost recovered.

The passenger traffic of airlines and Russian Railways has almost recovered after a fall in 2020 due to the CORONAVIRUS, so there will be no big difficulties with the introduction of QR codes. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Transport Vitaly Saveliev on Friday evening, November 12, at a briefing at the White House on the introduction of QR codes in transport and in public places.

“Aviation is practically recovering. The passenger railroad has been restored. Therefore, I think there will be no big difficulties here,” he said.

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On Friday, the government submitted two relevant bills to the State Duma. They provide that the full use of certificates will begin on February 1 and will last until June 1, 2022.

Saveliev explained the decision to introduce QR codes in air and rail transport due to the large proportion of unvaccinated people in transport: from August 2020 to August 2021, 34 million people made 90 million flights, 24 million people - 84 million train trips. That is, only 58 million people traveled in a year. With the help of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Gosuslug, it was possible to understand that about 30% of them were vaccinated against coronavirus - about 18 million people, and the remaining 40 million traveled unvaccinated, he explained.

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