The electronic Covid-19 vaccine passport will make it easier for Vietnamese to travel and trade internationally. Especially in the context of March 15, Vietnam opened up to international tourism.
Mr. Nguyen Ba Hung, Deputy Director of the Health Data Center, Information Technology Department, Ministry of Health, said that from December 20, 2021, the ministry issued Decision No. 5772 on the form and process for granting vaccine passport certification.
After that time, the Ministry of Health coordinated with the Ministry of Information and Communications and other agencies to build a vaccine passport issuance system, edit and supplement the digital signature function on the vaccination management platform.
“In the past week, we have piloted it at 3 hospitals, namely Bach Mai Hospital, K Hospital and E Hospital. As a result, the system is ready, responding well to the issuance of vaccine passports”, Mr. Hung affirmed.
Regarding the time to widely deploy the vaccine passport, this representative informed that he will hold a conference to implement nationwide in the next week.
According to Mr. Hung, the electronic Covid-19 vaccine passport will make it easier for people to travel and trade internationally. Especially in the context of March 15, Vietnam opened up to international tourism.
“According to information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vietnam’s Covid-19 vaccine passport form has been mutually recognized with 17 countries,” the representative said.
He also informed that the Ministry of Health has received a lot of questions related to this issue from people in recent times. Some people even go directly to the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Department of Information Technology for answers.
Regarding the process, people will not need to do anything to get a Covid-19 vaccine passport other than declaring accurate information when going for vaccination. Immunization establishments must be responsible for reviewing and connecting to the national database on population to verify information for the people.
“All people who have been vaccinated and have information on the vaccination management platform will receive a QR code on the Covid-19 PC application or the electronic health book, thereby serving the control when going abroad”, deputy director of the Health Data Center said.
Mr. Hung said he is working with the Ministry of Information and Communications and building a function to display vaccine passports on the PC-Covid-19 application.
He added: “If we have the information already, it will be necessary to add a function to display the vaccine passport. The essence of the vaccine passport is that the output is a QR code, used to go abroad. This QR code is built according to international standards”.
Information at the seminar, Deputy Health Minister Tran Van Thuan said that Vietnam is currently one of the six countries with the highest vaccine coverage rate in the world.
Specifically, the vaccination rate for people aged 18 and over is close to 100% with the first and second doses reaching 99% and the third dose reaching 43.5%. For people from 12 to 17 years old, the rate of having received one injection is 99%, and the rate of 2 injections is 94%.
Do Truong Duy, Director of the Information Technology Department, Ministry of Health, said that more than 202 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been injected nationwide. In which, the vaccination management platform has recorded more than 193 million shots, equivalent to 96%. The number of injections without data entry is more than 8 million, or about 4%.
The director of the Information Technology Department emphasized that verifying information on the vaccination management platform is the most important condition for the issuance of a Covid-19 vaccine passport.
“Although the Ministry of Health has issued many documents directing vaccination facilities to properly enter data as well as coordinate with local police to verify information, there is still a very large amount of information that has not been ‘cleaned and verified’, Mr. Duy said.
In the coming time, the Information Technology Department will advise leaders of the Ministry of Health and propose to coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security to develop a plan to review, supplement and clean vaccination data.
@ Zing News