More than 10 million Vietnamese have vaccine passports

According to the Information Technology Department, Ministry of Health, this number increased by more than 4 million people compared to the previous statistics 5 days ago.

An electronic vaccine passport is an electronic COVID-19 vaccination certificate that is digitally signed by vaccination facilities and the Ministry of Health based on people’s COVID-19 vaccination information. Vietnam’s electronic vaccine passport using standards issued by the World Health Organization and the European Union is currently being used in 62 countries and will be used by more countries in the near future. .

The Department of Information Technology, the Ministry of Health said that vaccine passports will be displayed on the electronic health book application, PC-COVID or on the search page the Ministry of Health is developing and will announce in the near future. next time. In addition, the Ministry of Health has written to request the Ministry of Public Security to add the function of displaying vaccine passports on the VNEID application. Currently, the focal unit of the two ministries is working to complete it soon

Therefore, people need to go to the above applications to check if they have a vaccine passport or not.

Regarding the vaccination work and signing and certifying the vaccine passport, the Ministry of Health has just issued together with Official Letter No. 2262/BYT-CNTT the process of “cleaning” COVID-19 vaccination data. In which, there are 3 cases where the wrong information will be updated, amended and supplemented.

Specifically, the “cleaning” of COVID-19 vaccination data is performed in one of the following cases:

– No identity card number (ID card)/citizen identity card (CCCD).

– Wrong format of ID card number/citizen identity card.

– Wrong basic personal information such as: identity card number/citizen identification number, full name, date of birth, gender.

The Ministry of Health also requested localities, units under the Ministry and health ministries and branches to urgently complete “cleaning” of COVID-19 vaccine vaccination data before June 1, 2022. This is to help authenticate citizens’ electronic vaccine passports…