The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) started to work in accordance with the circular “HES code consultation in urban public transport” of the Ministry of the Interior. According to the statement made by the IMM, to ensure the integration between Istanbulkart and the application of the Ministry of Health Hayat Eve Sığar (HES), BELBIM, an affiliate of IMM, and the technical teams of the Ministry of Health have initiated the necessary technical integration studies . IMM will provide the necessary integration within two weeks. Thus, the HES code will be used in urban public transport trips in Istanbul, with this integration the personalized Istanbul cards of the diagnosed Kovid-19 carriers will be suspended to be transmitted to the IMM by the Ministry of Health or those who are in contact with these people. Those who try to use the means of transport will be reported to the Ministry of the Interior. On the other hand, the IMM has also started to work on the personalization of the Anonymous Istanbul cards, which are not yet personalized, used for urban public transport activities. Information and instructions on the personalization of their cards will be sent to these types of Istanbulkart users via the Internet and the mobile application and the short message service. There are 34 million 260 thousand 87 Istanbul cards in total in Istanbul. 8 million 260 thousand 87 of them, corresponding to 24 percent, are personalized.
