The city Inter-Agency Task Force on coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) here has urged business establishments to start implementing the mandatory Quick Response (QR) code scanning for customers starting Monday.

Lawyer Paolo Evangelista, city information officer, said this city’s more than 1,300 business establishments need to require their clients with the QR codes for the city’s Covid-19 contact tracing system (CCTS).

“We are slowly implementing the ‘no QR code, no entry’ to businesses here for the strict compliance starting March 1,” he said. He said customers can present their individual QR codes through digital mobile phones or printed Identification cards.

“For a start, we have started the strict compliance of CCTS at the city public market, where marketgoers are required to present their QR codes before entering the area,” the official said.

The city government has earlier launched the free CCTS online registration and printing to residents who have no internet access, particularly the indigents.

Evangelista said the free CCTS initiative has so far benefited 4,000 city residents.

“The strict QR code scanning will also be implemented in all city government offices,” he added.

The North Cotabato provincial government is also set to implement the same procedure for all persons entering the province starting next month.

CTTS is a digitalized system of information essential to track any person exposed to a Covid-19 infected person to avoid the disease’s spread. (PNA)