A COVID-19 vaccine passport issued on PC-COVID app. — VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The health ministry started to issue vaccine passports on Friday (April 15) to the general public in line with its schedule. Việt Nam has so far reached mutual recognition of vaccine passports with 19 countries: Japan, the US, the UK, Australia, India, Belarus, Cambodia, the Philippines, Palestine, Maldives, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Turkey, Singapore, Saint Lucia, the Republic of Korea, Iran and Malaysia. The passport will be available on the national COVID-19 app PC COVID-19 (available on both iOS and Android systems) or Digital Health ( Sổ sức khỏe điện tử ) apps. If people don’t have the apps, they can get their vaccine passports by accessing the health ministry’s portal and filling in the necessary information: name, gender, ID number, date of last COVID-19 vaccination, and email address. They will then receive the passports by email. The vaccine passports have 11 fields of information: name, date of birth, nationality, the targeted disease, doses of vaccines received, date of vaccination, lot number of the vaccine batch, type of vaccine, vaccine product received, the vaccine manufacturer, and a code for the certification. Information on the targeted disease, vaccine, vaccine product or manufacturer…