At the regular press conference on April 7, Deputy Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang said: “As we answered at the previous press conference, Vietnam has now reached an agreement to recognize mutual vaccine passports with 19 countries, including Japan, the US, the UK, Australia, India, Belarus, Cambodia, the Philippines, Palestine, Maldives, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Turkey, Singapore, and some other countries such as Saint Lucia, South Korea, Iran and Malaysia.
We also inform reporters that recently on April 4, the Ministry of Health announced in detail the process of issuing vaccine passports in Vietnam. It is expected that on April 15, vaccine passports will be issued to people.
People holding Vaccine Passports from these countries entering Vietnam and from Vietnam to these countries are subject to the same health measures as those who have been vaccinated in their home country. This recognition includes exemption from consular certification/consular legalization procedures when using this document in the receiving country.
Vietnam's vaccine passport form. Photo: Viet Tuan.
Vietnam's vaccine passport has 11 pieces of information about the bearer, the quantity and type of vaccine injected, along with the certificate code. The information will be digitally signed, encrypted and packaged in 2D QR code format. The QR code on the vaccine passport will expire after 12 months from the date of creation.
