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

Vietnam’s vaccine passport followsstandards issued by WHO 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 byaccessing the health ministry's portal and filling in necessary information.They will then receive the passports by email.

The passporttemplate was revealed by the Health Ministry in December last year, which has 11fields of information: name, date of birth, nationality, targeted disease,doses of vaccines received, date of vaccination, lot number of the vaccinebatch, type of vaccine, vaccine product received, the vaccine manufacturer, anda code for the certification.


The name and date of birth will be integrated withother personal identification documents (passports or citizen identificationcards).

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

So far Vietnam has reached mutual recognition of vaccine passport with 19countries, namely Japan, the US, the UK,Australia, India, Belarus, Cambodia, the Philippines, Palestine, Maldives, NewZealand, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Turkey, Singapore, Saint Lucia, the Republic ofKorea, Iran and Malaysia.

As of April 14, Vietnam had administered nearly209 million vaccine doses, with nearly 100 percent of people over 18 havingreceived 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 95.3percent 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 otherage groups./.