14 million people granted passports for COVID-19 vaccine

According to an update from the Information Technology Department (Ministry of Health), after 1 month of implementation, the whole country has 14 million people receiving passports. COVID-19 vaccine electronic.

The Ministry of Health started issuing electronic vaccine passports from April 15. The electronic vaccine passport is being displayed on the PC-COVID app. People can access this application, go to the vaccine passport section displayed on the screen.

Besides, the vaccine passport will be updated on the app Health Electronically and on the search page, the Ministry of Health is under construction and will announce it in the near future.

According to a representative of the Health Data Center, the Information Technology Department (Ministry of Health), the essence of the electronic vaccine passport is that each person will be issued a QR code like the QR code on the current PC-COVID application. . The only difference is that the vaccine passport uses the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union to be able to verify information when going abroad.

The validity of the QR code on the vaccine passport is valid for 12 months as recommended by WHO and the European Union, to ensure confidentiality.

The process of issuing vaccine passports to people is uniformly applied at all vaccination facilities across the country, including 3 steps:

Step 1: Immunization establishments review, verify and authenticate information about people getting vaccinated against COVID-19 according to the guidance of the Ministry of Health.

Step 2: Immunization facilities digitally sign COVID-19 vaccination data on the COVID-19 Immunization Management platform. This platform connects and shares vaccination data with the Vaccination Certification Management System COVID-19 meet the regulations on connecting medical data issued by the Ministry of Health.

Data on vaccination against COVID-19 vaccine on the basis of need to meet regulations: Having had enough COVID-19 vaccines with 8 vaccines licensed by the Ministry of Health (including: AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, Vero Cell, Pfizer, Moderna) , Janssen, Hayat-Vax and Abdala – each vaccine product is assigned a code).

Step 3: The Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health) digitally signs the certificate of vaccination against COVID-19 vaccine. The certificate is issued using the QR code format according to the EU regulatory standards.

Vaccine passport needs to show 11 information: Full name; Date of birth; Nationality; The disease the certification targets; Number of injections received; Date of injection; Dose No.; Vaccines; Vaccine products; Vaccine supplier or manufacturer; Certificate number.

Information will be digitally signed, encrypted and packaged as a 2D QR code.

The information about the disease to which the certificate targets, the vaccine, the vaccine type and the supplier or manufacturer will be displayed in correspondence with the updated WHO “COVID-19 vaccine tracker and landscape” document on the Portal. WHO electronic documents and “Value Sets for EU Digital COVID Certificates” issued by the European Union (EU).

With this process, people don’t have to do anything to own a vaccine passport, because this process is done by vaccination facilities and the Department of Preventive Medicine is the focal point to digitally sign.