The notice was sent to provincial health departments, the ministry’s bodies and telecom group Viettel, the developer of the national digital platform for Covid-19 vaccination database management.

Health officials enter information of Covid-19 vaccine recipients into national database.

The ministry began issuing digital vaccine passports last month. To protect rights of the holders of Covid-19 vaccination certificates and vaccine passports, the ministry requests relevant units to not make difficulties nor profiteer from these services.

It also plans to accelerate communications campaigns to raise people’s awareness of the rights to be granted with vaccination certificates and vaccine passports in case they have been fully vaccinated.

It emphasised that violators must take full responsibility before the law.

Over 1 million people receive Covid-19 e-passports

Over 1 million Vietnamese people had received Covid-19 passport as of April 20 after six days the Ministry of Health (MoH) started to issue the certification through “So suc khoe dien tu” and “PC-Covid” apps.

Vietnam's vaccine passport: All you need to know

The Health Ministry begins to issue vaccine passports on April 15 in line with schedule.

Vietnam reaches mutual recognition of ‘vaccine passports’ with 19 countries

Vietnam had reached agreement on the mutual recognition of “vaccine passports” with 19 countries as of April 7, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bac Giang reviews Covid-19 vaccination data for vaccine passport issuance

(BGO) - To prepare for vaccinate children aged from 5 to under 12 against Covid-19, all vaccination facilities in Bac Giang province have reviewed and added necessary medical equipment, computer system while ensuring internet line to update data into national Covid-19 vaccination management software and meet the demand of population data share and vaccine passport issuance.

Vietnam reaches mutual recognition of vaccine passports with 19 countries

Vietnam has reached agreement on the mutual recognition of vaccine passports with 19 countries as of April 7, said deputy spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Pham Thu Hang at the ministry’s regular press conference.

Source: NDO/VNA