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"Vaccine passport" is issued to people who have received 2 shots with 8 vaccines licensed by the Ministry of Health. The "Vaccine Passport" certificate is issued using the QR code format, which expires 12 months from the date this QR code is created.

The Ministry of Health has just issued a decision on the form and process of issuing a "Vaccine Passport", effective from December 20, 2021.

According to the guidance of the Ministry of Health, the process of issuing "Vaccine Passports" to people is applied uniformly at all vaccination facilities across the country. The grant process consists of 3 steps:

Step 1: Vaccination establishments review, verify and verify information of people vaccinated against Covid-19 according to the instructions in Official Dispatch 8938/BYT-DP dated October 21, 2021 and Official Dispatch 9438/BYT-IT dated November 5, 2021.

Step 2: Vaccination facilities digitally sign Covid-19 vaccination data on the Covid-19 Vaccination Management Platform. This platform connects and shares vaccination data with the Covid-19 Vaccination Certification Management System in accordance with the regulations on medical data connection issued by the Ministry of Health.

Covid-19 vaccination data on the Platform needs to meet the regulations: Have 

received enough doses of Covid-19 vaccine 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 tagged with 1 code).

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

The "vaccine passport" needs to display 11 fields of information: Full name; date of birth; nationality; the plague that the certification targets; the number of injections received; date of injection; dose number; vaccines; vaccine products; vaccine suppliers or manufacturers; the code of the certificate.

The above information includes full name and date of birth combined with other identification documents such as identity card, citizen identity card or passport to help identify the owner.

The information will be digitally signed, encrypted and packaged in the form of a 2D QR code. QR codes expire after 12 months from the date of creation.

The disease information targeted by the certificate, the vaccine, the type of vaccine 

and the supplier or manufacturer will be displayed in accordance with the WHO "COVID-19 vaccine tracker and landscape" document updated on the WHO Web Portal and the "Value Sets for EU Digital COVID Certificates" issued by the European Union (EU).

National epidemic prevention and control applications and other utility applications (if agreed by individual users) receive and store vaccination confirmations in the form of QR codes according to health data exchange guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health./.

Source: thoibaotaichinhvietnam.vn