The main reason why citizens requested exceptional sms trafficking on Thursday was by a large margin to go to a store to buy or supply essential goods and services (option 2), while the citizens' second choice was for exercise (option 6).
Specifically, on January 14, 130,071 messages were sent for exceptional distribution to a supermarket or bakery.
Yesterday, based on the data announced by the Ministry of Innovation, Research and Digital Policy, a total of 339,299 sms were sent with distribution requests, of which 322,072 were valid. Of these, 318,102 were approved.
For going to a pharmacy or for a blood donation or a visit to a doctor or for a laboratory test for Covid-19 or for vaccination at vaccination centers (option 1), the approved sms amounted to 28,507.
For going to a store to buy or supply essential goods / services, including take away (option 2) the approved sms amounted to 130,071.
For going to a bank (option 3) the approved sms were 4,844.
For absolutely necessary visits to state services or services of the wider public sector and local government (option 4) the approved sms were 4,644.
For trafficking to provide assistance to people who are unable to self-serve or who have to protect themselves or are in self-restraint and / or in places of mandatory restriction (option 5) the approved sms amounted to 22,436.
For travel for physical exercise or individual sports (option 6) the sms amounted to 64,405.
For going to a ceremony (eg funeral, wedding, baptism) (option 7) amounted to 1,301.
Finally for any other purpose (option 8) on Tuesday the sms were 61,894.
Exceptional movement of persons via SMS is limited to twice a day and requires people under the age of 65, while the reasons for not approving a traffic request are the wrong structure of the message, or the time for which the message is made. request, ie not to fall within the hours that exceptional traffic is allowed, and the exceeding of the 2 allowed movements by sms.
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