Vietnam begins to issue vaccine passports on April 15

Vietnam begins to issue vaccine passports on April 15 hinh anh 1Vaccine passport form displayed on the PC App (Photo: the Ministry of Health) 

Hanoi (VNA) – The Health Ministry begins to issue s
on April 15 in line with schedule.

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

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

The passport
template was revealed by the Health Ministry 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.

Vietnam begins to issue vaccine passports on April 15 hinh anh 2Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

The name and date of birth will be integrated with
other personal identification documents (passports or citizen identification
cards).

The information is encoded into a QR code, which will expire after 12 months.
Following their expiry, people will be notified and a new will be
created instead.

So far Vietnam has reached mutual recognition of vaccine passport 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.

As of April 14, Vietnam had administered nearly
209 million vaccine doses, with nearly 100 percent of people over 18 having
received full two shots and over 51 percent having received a booster shot. In the group age from 12 to under 18, 99.9 percent have got one shot and 95.3
percent full two shots.

Vaccination for children from 5 to under 12 started on April 14,
and the children will also be granted vaccine passports like people in other
age groups./.

VNA

Source: VietnamPlus

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