The Constitutional Court of Ecuador today will hear a petition by doctors' and lawyers' organizations and private citizens challenging Green Pass vaccine mandate restrictions declared by the South American country's version of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), called the National Emergency Center of Operations (COE).

Naming COE Legal Representative and National Director police Captain Juan Ernesto Zapata Silva as a defendant, the complaint claims that the COE requirement that the National Health Authority "issue a technical standard to require mandatory presentation of a vaccine certificate for entry to public venues to any person over 12 years of age" is unconstitutional. The complaint also challenges police control and surveillance and enforcement measures, the requirement that the National Transit Agency prevent entry of passengers without a vaccine card to the various modes of transit, and the obligation to vaccinate children from the age of 5 years.