Vietnam is expected to issue a passport for the Covid-19 vaccine from April 15, what should people do?

A representative of the Information Technology Department under the Ministry of Health said that the ministry required vaccination facilities across the country to prepare necessary conditions and digitally sign the certificate of vaccination against Covid-19 vaccine starting from August 8. April 4 for the Ministry of Health to issue vaccine passports to people, which is expected to start from April 15.

The vaccine passport issuance process consists of 3 steps as follows:

Step 1, people when going to vaccinate must declare accurate information. After that, the vaccination facilities will be responsible for reviewing, verifying and validating the information on the vaccination management platform.

Step 2, after checking, verifying and authenticating the correct information, the vaccination facilities will digitally sign for confirmation. After digital signature, the data is pushed to the vaccine certification system.

Step 3, Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health is responsible for signing digitally to issue vaccine passports to people.

Thus, people who have been vaccinated, correctly declared information and have data entered by vaccination facilities into the vaccination system, correctly authenticated information with the National Database on Population will be granted a household registration certificate. vaccination without any further procedure.

However, the representative of the Information Technology Department noted, only accurate and verified information with the National Database of Population will be signed and certified by the vaccination facility. If the information is incorrect or the vaccine is missing, people will not be issued a vaccine passport.

Therefore, from now on, people who have been vaccinated should check the information on the Electronic Health Book application to determine whether the information is correct or not. If there is missing or incorrect information, it is necessary to contact the vaccination facility to be supplemented and updated.

After the vaccination unit and the Department of Preventive Medicine sign digitally, each citizen will receive a vaccine passport. Vaccine passports are displayed on the Electronic Health Book application, PC-Covid.

You can also search on the website of the Ministry of Health by entering basic information including full name, date of birth, gender, citizen identification, personal identification code and information to identify is actually the date of injection, the most recent injection. Then, enter the email address to receive the vaccine passport (the above information page is expected to be published this week).

Online conference held on the morning of April 4 chaired by Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan

According to the Information Technology Department, Ministry of Health, the output is an international standard QR code, which will expire after 12 months. This is a technical solution to ensure safety and security. After 12 months, people will be informed and notified and the system will actively generate another QR code.

On the question of why not add people’s identification information to the vaccine passport, the representative of the Information Technology Department emphasized that the vaccine passport must be combined with identification documents to avoid revealing personal information. of citizens. Thus, when using a vaccine passport, people need an additional passport or citizen identification.

Nguyen Lien