Agencies asked to speed up issuance of vaccine passports

Vaccine passport form displayed on the PC App. (Photo courtesy of the )

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) – The Ministry of Health on April 19 asked vaccination facilities
and health agencies to quickly complete the database on people vaccinated
against COVID-19 by the end of this month so that they could get the
vaccine passport.

The ministry’s
database contains details on millions of COVID-19 injections and the
personal identification numbers of vaccinated people. However, the information
has not been verified in the national database on population due to incorrect
information about name or date of birth.

The ministry
asked vaccination facilities and health agencies to review, correct and
complete the database on COVID-19 vaccinations by April 30.

Heads of
vaccination facilities are directly responsible if the slow update of the
database affects the issuance of .    

Also on April
19, the ministry asked the People’s Committees of provinces and cities to
complete information relating to COVID-19 vaccinations required
by the national database on population. The work must be completed
by May 5, 2022.

The ministry
also asked the People’s Committees of provinces and cities, units under the
management of the ministry to submit a list of officials in charge of COVID-19
vaccinations so that the coordination on vaccinations and issuance
of vaccine passports could be done smoothly.

The health
ministry began to issue vaccine passports on April 15.

Vietnam’s
vaccine passport follows standards issued by WHO and the EU which are being
applied by 62 nations. 

The passport
will be available on the PC Covid-19 or Digital Health (So suc khoe dien tu)
. If people don’t have the apps, they can get their passports by
accessing the health ministry’s portal and filling in the necessary
information. They will then receive the passports by email.

The passport
template was revealed by the Ministry of Health in December last
year, which has 11 fields of information: name, date of birth, nationality,
targeted disease, doses of vaccines received, date of vaccination, lot number
of the vaccine batch, type of vaccine, vaccine product received, the vaccine
manufacturer, and a code for the certification.

So far Vietnam
has reached mutual recognition of vaccine passports with 19 countries, namely
Japan, the US, the UK, Australia, India, Belarus, Cambodia, the Philippines,
Palestine, Maldives, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Turkey, Singapore, Saint
Lucia, the Republic of Korea, Iran and Malaysia./.