Azerbaijani citizens have to send SMS message before leaving home

09:21 - 3.04.2020


April 3, Fineko/abc.az. Azerbaijan is to apply tightened conditions for the population for movement on the streets from 5 April to 20 April.

Starting from 5 April the Azerbaijani citizens are required to send SMS messages, indicating reasons for going outside in compliance with the relevant decision of the Cabinet’s Operational Headquarters made with the purpose to prevent COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on the territory of the country.

Citizens can leave their apartments for the following reasons: due to an urgent medical need and receiving treatment on any schedule; due to the need to buy food and other necessities, as well as medicines, banking and postal services; due to the presence at the funeral of a close relative.

Before leaving the house, the citizen must send an SMS message to short number 8103 indicating the purpose of the exit and the number of his ID.

One of the digits (from 1 to 3) should be specified in the SMS message, depending on what you need to leave the house for, as well as personal data:

- Digit 1 - for receiving emergency medical care. A permit is issued for 2 hours to go to a doctor within your city or district. If you need to travel to another district or city, it will be taken into account that you need additional time on the road. In this case, the doctor will indicate the time of the patient's return home and issue the appropriate reference. This reference should be presented to the police if necessary;

- Digit 2 - to buy food, daily goods, medicines, as well as to use banking or postal services (the permit is issued for 2 hours once a day)

- Digit 3 - to participate in the funeral of the close relatives.

Personal data should be specified in the SMS message:

- for Azerbaijani citizens - ID card number and series (for example, AZE11111111);

- for foreigners temporarily or permanently residing in the country, as well as stateless persons - the series and number of the residence permit (for example, MYI (DYI) 1111111);

- for foreigners and stateless persons who have extended their legal temporary stay in the country - the series and number of the relevant document (for example, IOM 1111111).

FOR EXAMPLE: to buy products, daily goods, medicines, as well as to use banking or postal services, you will need to send an SMS message with text 2 AZE 1111111 to the number 8103.

The response message from the E-government system will contain the validity period of the permit. A person can leave the place of residence only after receiving a positive response from the system. A response SMS must be presented to police officers upon their request.

Permission is not required if you need to leave your home because of a direct danger to life and health. You also do not need to get a permit if a citizen is summoned to a law enforcement or judicial authority. In this case, the citizen must present to the police a document confirming the call to law enforcement agencies or the court.

If there are difficulties with sending SMS messages or receiving responses from e-government, citizens can contact the ASAN Service’s call center 108.

Data on employees of the relevant public and private entities can be uploaded to portal icaze.e-gov.az, starting from 3 April.

"Violation of the above-said restrictions will be regarded as a violation of the special quarantine regime and will entail administrative and criminal liability envisaged by law. In addition, every case of abuse of the permission procedure, false information and other similar actions will be seriously investigated. Their perpetrators will be brought to justice," the Operational Headquarters underlined in its statement.

 

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