How do I get the vaccination certificate? The validity of the certificate is protected with a holographic coat of arms watermark and unique document number. The certificate features the person's name, date of birth and the dates of their vaccination injections. "We're also giving people control over the level of vaccination history they share, as the certificate only shows your COVID-19 vaccination status," Ms Reynolds said. Minister for Government Services Linda Reynolds said the record made it easy for people to show their coronavirus vaccination status "anytime, anywhere". Over the coming months we’ll see more countries setting up digital COVID vaccine passports, or perhaps a globally standardised passport will gain traction.Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is not currently required in Australia but this digital certificate is now available in case that changes.
The creation of digital COVID vaccine passports is one of many areas where governments’ use of technology has been fast-tracked as we try to fight the global pandemic. While wreaking havoc across the globe, COVID has led to significant digital transformation, especially digital transformation in government.
No doubt more and more countries will announce digital vaccination passport programs in the coming months as vaccination rates continue to rise. This is being set up as a global tool to help reopen borders. The International Air Transport Association External Link (IATA) has also started work on its Travel Pass initiative/app External Link. The immunisation certificate can be dropped into a digital wallet or printed.
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In an ABC Radio National interview External Link, Stuart Robert, the Minister for Government Services, said Australia’s system would use the existing immunisation register, coupled with the Medicare Express Plus app via myGov. According to a Forbes article on digital passports External Link, Denmark and Sweden would also use the digital passports internally, allowing citizens to go out for dinner and go to large events like concerts and festivals using their digital vaccination passports.Īustralia is also looking at digital vaccination passports. Denmark plans to have a basic digital passport set up by the end of this month, and Sweden is looking at the end of June ( source: Healthcare IT News External Link ). Digital COVID vaccine passportsĭigital vaccine passports, most likely on people’s phones, will provide a quick and easy way to show proof of vaccination. Why a vaccine passport?Ī vaccine passport will provide reassurance at borders that people coming into a country (whether they’re tourists or returning home) aren’t likely to be carrying coronavirus and therefore don’t pose a risk of spreading COVID. And last week during a BBC interview External Link, ex British Prime Minister Tony Blair talked about the necessity for vaccination passports so travel could resume and to get back to ‘life as we knew it’. The certificate also allows them to re-enter the country without testing and/or quarantine. Iceland led the way, as the first EU country to provide a certificate to citizens who’d received two doses of the vaccine External Link.
Last month, the EU Commission President insisted vaccination passports were essential External Link. This means that the chance they have or are carrying COVID is much lower. Quite simply, a COVID vaccine passport or certificate is proof that someone coming into a region’s borders has been vaccinated against COVID. A COVID vaccine passport (or certificate) has been discussed in many countries and regions, including the EU, the US and Australia.
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