HES (Hayat Eve Sığar) Code, within the scope of Controlled Social Life, is a code that allows you to securely share whether you have any risk in terms of Covid-19 disease with institutions and individuals in transactions such as transportation or visits. Also, the app has been effective and developed technological opportunities in a fast way.

At the point where the pandemic has come, the HES Code Application has been removed from use on 04.03.2022 in line with the measures taken with the decrease in the impact of the health crisis. The Hayat Eve Sığar mobile application is live on Android, iOS and Huawei markets and is actively used by citizens. Currently, the application continues to use features such as Viewing Covid-19 Vaccine Information and Creating a Vaccination Card, EU Compatible Health Passport, Giving a Notice, Safe Area, Calculation of Corona Risk, Viewing Risk Density.

All public institutions, organizations and private companies can view Covid-19 risk status, vaccine, immunity and test status information through the services provided by the Ministry of Health and the HES Code query of citizens. There was cooperation with SKRS for ID system for vaccine types, E-Nabız for vaccine card information, MİZ for address information, HSYS for obtaining updated health information, and MERNIS for verification identity info.

HES Application has been directly used by citizens of the Republic of Turkey, foreign individuals living in Turkey and foreigners who come to Turkey for various reasons. Although the project is carried out within the Ministry of Health, it has been carried out jointly with many other institutions to ensure that isolated or quarantined individuals aren't allowed entry to public places.

The Hayat Eve Sığar application, which enables our citizens to securely share whether they are infected or in contact with COVID-19, with other individuals and institutions, has been put into operation. Hayat Eve Sığar (HES) application, which is one of the world's largest digital projects in this field, has been downloaded over 125 million times and nearly 222 million HES CODEs have been received. Nearly 16 billion HES CODE queries were made. Thanks to the HES CODE inquiry, 2.5 million risk warnings were received in intercity air travel and 6.8 million in urban transportation.

Until September 2022:

• Number of users who downloaded the application: 125.914.124
• Total number of HEPP codes: 222,366.303
• Number of people who bought HES code: 98.056.586
• Number of HES codes inquired: 15.043.670.644
• Number of safe area QR codes: 89,217
• Number of safe area active QR codes: 80.399
• Number of users applying QR code: 78,091.

With the rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus around the world, social life has been deeply affected. In order to manage the risk posed by the Covid-19 outbreak in terms of public health and public order, to ensure social isolation, to maintain physical distance and to keep the spread of the disease under control, difficulties were encountered in the stages of taking decisions in a limited time and moving to the implementation stage, bringing together stakeholders and experts in the field, providing 24/7 service by following the system.

All data such as foreign entries to Turkey, isolation details, laboratory test results, reports of video examinations, health histories of patients, contact information, treatment information, follow-up information, vaccination information are managed through the applications in the central systems of the Ministry of Health and this has been beneficial in terms of time and cost in developing new applications. With the HES Code, the risk status of the people is question and the use of public transportation, travel, visit, shopping mall, etc. are prevented from entering social areas and leaving the isolation zones. In this way, the spread of the virus is largely prevented.

The Hayat Eve Sığar Application has been developed to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The necessary infrastructure works have been completed in order to quickly produce solutions to the problems that may arise against the increase in epidemic diseases in the future and the Hayat Eve Sığar Application sets an example for other epidemic diseases. In case of any epidemic disease that may occur again in the future, the infrastructure will be ready and faster and more effective work will be possible. In addition, sharing the success of the implementation with other stakeholders and relevant countries will contribute to their epidemic management.

It was a difficult process to implement such an application quickly while ensuring that all citizens can use it without any problems, at a time when the pandemic process very quickly limited social life. All new developments that took place during the pandemic process had to be immediately integrated into the application and made available to the public to regulate social life. We worked very quickly to implement all the decisions taken in the fight against the pandemic in the fastest and smoothest way, and very fast action was taken.