Passengers swipe the card to ride with health code information is still synchronized verification? Beijing Municipal One Card Response

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On January 28, 2023, Wang Ran (a pseudonym), who works in Beijing, told reporters that he had registered his identity information for the Beijing OneCard, and had to fill out the upgrade again, as well as his name and phone number, and after repeated consideration, he chose not to upgrade for the time being.

Wang Ran said that the trip code was taken offline last December, and now the health code is not checked, but this policy of the OneCard has not been adjusted, which means that when passengers swipe the card or scan the code to ride, the health code information is still being checked simultaneously. Is this really necessary?

The reporter found that the notice released in May 2022 on the official website of Beijing Municipal Transportation One Card Co., Ltd. shows that in order to implement the deployment of Beijing’s new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control work, and actively respond to the work requirements of the comprehensive upgrade of Beijing’s public transportation ticketing system (expected to achieve automatic synchronized verification of passenger card or code ride and health code information by the end of May), Beijing One Card Company quickly organized relevant forces at the first time The system upgrade, May 17 at 00:00 am with service user conditions.

In response to this situation, the reporter contacted the Beijing Municipal Transportation Card Co. The hotline staff told reporters that the relevant government departments have not issued a notice to change the regulations. The new coronavirus infection has been adjusted to “Class B B tube”, traffic travel is no longer required to check the nucleic acid, health treasure and other circumstances, but a card upgrade policy has not been canceled, the follow-up situation is still pending further government notification.

As for the specific time to withdraw the policy, the staff said, “At present, Beijing municipalities have not received the relevant notice, the specific time is still uncertain, we will also continue to pay attention to the relevant progress.”

Subsequently, the reporter also called Beijing 12345 to understand the situation, its staff said, “has not yet received the Beijing municipal transportation and a card to cancel and health code information synchronization verification notice, but if the card is involved in the recharge problem, can help communicate separately.”