Quyết định 5772/QĐ-BYT 2021 Biểu mẫu và quy trình cấp “Hộ chiếu vắc xin”

THE TEMPLATE AND PROCEDURE
FOR ISSUANCE OF “VACCINE PASSPORTS”

(Issued together with the Ministry of Health’s Decision No. 5772/QD-BYT

dated December 20, 2021)

1. “Vaccine passport” template

1.1. Displayed information shall include:

1. Full name;

2. Date of birth;

3. Nationality;

4. Targeted disease;

5. Number of vaccine shots;

6. Date of vaccination;

7. Dose number;

8. Vaccines;

9. Vaccine products;

10. Vaccine suppliers or manufacturers;

11. Code of the certificate.

The data would be e-signed, encrypted and presented through a 2D QR code. Specific requirements are provided in Section 4.

1.2. The above information includes full name and date of birth together with other identification papers such as people’s identity card or citizen’s identity card or passport for identifying the holder.

1.3. The information about targeted disease, vaccines, vaccine types and vaccine suppliers or manufacturers shall be displayed in correspondence with the document “COVID-19 vaccine tracker and landscape” published on the WHO’s portal and the document “Value Sets for EU Digital COVID Certificates” promulgated by the European Union (EU).

1.4. Date of vaccination and number of vaccine shots serve the identification of vaccination information.

1.5. QR codes shall expire after 12 months from the date of creation.

Image 1: An illustration of how Vietnam's Covid-19 vaccine passport

is presented on a mobile phone.

2. Procedure for issuance of “Vaccine passports”

2.1. Procedure map

2.2. Procedure description

- Step 1: Vaccination establishments review, verify and authenticate information about people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 in accordance with the Ministry of Health’s Official Dispatch No. 8938/BYT-DP dated October 21, 2021, on guiding the procedure for information verification and vaccination against COVID-19 and the Ministry of Health’s Official Dispatch No. 9438/BYT-CNTT dated November 5, 2021, on guiding the procedure for verifying people's information on the COVID-19 Immunization Management Platform.

- Step 2: Vaccination establishments digitally sign COVID-19 vaccination data on the COVID-19 Immunization Management Platform. The COVID-19 Immunization Management Platform is connected and shared with the COVID-19 Vaccine Immunization Certification Management System in accordance with the Ministry of Health’s regulations on connection of medical data.

The vaccination data on the COVID-19 Immunization Management Platform shall satisfy the requirements prescribed in Sections 3 and 4.

- Step 3: The General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health shall digitally sign the certificate of vaccination against COVID-19. The certificate shall be presented with a QR code according to the EU standards prescribed in Section 5.

National disease prevention applications and other utility applications (if approved by users) shall receive and store the confirmation of vaccination against COVID-19 in the form of a QR code in accordance with the Ministry of Health’s instructions on medical data exchange.

3. Standardization of COVID-19 vaccination data

*Regarding “Vaccine, vaccine type and supplier/manufacturer”, fill in the information according to Section 4. List of international code tables

4. List of international code tables

4.1. Disease

4.2.    Vaccine type

4.3. Vaccine product

4.4. Vaccine supplier/manufacturer

5. Technical procedure for generating QR codes

5.1. The QR code initialization procedure

Image 2: The QR code initialization procedure

5.2. Technical requirements for steps in the QR code initialization procedure