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In a move to take all preventive precautions to protect citizens and residents from the Coronavirus and limit its spread, the new medical passport has been launched by the Ministry of health in Saudi Arabia in the Tawakkalna App. As Saudi Arabian Government is keen to preserve the health and safety of citizens and residents within its soil from the risk of the spread of novel coronavirus; The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) developed Tawakkalna App in order to support government efforts aimed at countering Covid-19. Tawakkalna App was developed to facilitate the issuance of movement permits electronically during the curfew period for government and private sector employees, as well as individuals, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and all relevant authorities during the curfew, thus helping to reduce the spread of the pandemic in the Kingdom. Tawakkalna helps individuals, security, health and private entities, that are exempted from the curfew, to automatize all transactions between relevant parties in order to mitigate the health, economic and social impacts that may result from the implementation of policies taken to eliminate the spread of Covid-19. Although cautiously people return to normal life, Tawakkalna is helping in this phase by new services such as showing Users’ health condition and other services. And as a part of promoting social responsibility, Tawakkalna has provided many services regarding raising concern if there are violations, as well as providing the ability to notify Ministry of Health in the event of a suspected case.
The Minister expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and HRH Crown Prince for their care and continuous interest to preserve the health and safety of citizens and residents, and to take all preventive precautions to protect them from the Coronavirus and limit its spread.
The Minister of Health extended his thanks and appreciation to SDAIA, the governmental partner and the technical enabler, for its efforts in support of the Ministry of Health since the beginning of the pandemic until today, and for its contributions to finding solution represented in the application of (Tawakkalna) and the ‘Medical Passport’ service launched today.
For his part, the Chairman of SDAIA thanked the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and HRH Crown Prince for providing the necessary health care to maintain the safety of citizens and residents from the beginning of the pandemic until today.
