Everything you need to know about the EU Covid certificate!

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The testing phase of the coronavirus passport accepted by all European Union countries has started.

Summer is here; the coronavirus passport is almost here. The only thing missing is you on a flight, maybe to Hungary. After you are vaccinated, of course. If you are thinking about visiting this beautiful small country this summer, here is a little help.

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Even though all member states are already allowed to start issuing and using the coronavirus passport,

considering the whole of the European Union, it will be valid from the 1st of July.

That gives you plenty of time to prepare for your summer vacations and find out all the necessary information about the document in this article.

Let’s start with the basics. What is exactly the digital covid certificate accepted in the EU?
The digital certificate unanimously accepted by all EU member countries is a document stating one of the following about its owner:  he has received the coronavirus vaccine, he has a negative PCR test in his possession, or he has successfully recuperated from the infection.

The certificate can either be a piece of paper or a digital application; nevertheless, in both cases, it needs to include a QR code.

It will be free of charge for everyone either in English or the given country’s language.

And, of course, all EU countries accept it.

National authorities will line out the process of obtaining the certificate and decisions around it. According to novekedes.hu, you can either get it from a testing point or the sanitary authorities.

The digital version will be a mobile application; however, citizens are entitled to ask for a printed version, as well. Both versions need to contain a QR code with all the primary data alongside a digital stamp functioning as a digital signature proving the certificate’s authenticity. The member states have agreed on one single design, so independently from the country that provides you with the document, it will be easily recognisable.

After the technicalities, what changes will be brought by the passport into our lives considering the free movement between EU countries? The most important and exciting feature of the document is the fact that

its owner will be entitled to travel freely into any European Union country without having to follow the restrictions of the given destination.

Member states can not impose any restrictions on citizens with the digital Covid certificate, except in case any measure is necessary for the country’s public health.

Upon checking the document, the QR code will be scanned to verify the digital signature. Every single place entitled to provide the certificate, whether it is a hospital, a test centre or a health authority, will have its very own digital signature that is stored in a secure central database in every single country.

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6 Comments

  1. Everything you need to know about the EU Covid certificate!
    the best thing is ..do not use it ,
    if we all said NO .they would soon change there mind ,
    it is tyranny ,do not let them do it to you ..AGAIN …
    clearly many here forget the old days ,
    was not that long ago 1990 ,
    when you were all prisoners ,

  2. What about people who are allergic to the vaccine and have never been sick? Are we now going to need a DR’s Certificate? This is a FARCE!!! How long will this be required, until someone invents a new pandemic to terrify most of the people in the world into sullen compliance?

    We need more people who want to get to the bottom of things and don’t just accept what some governments want us to due to fear based on lies or propaganda, instead of the truth!!!

  3. Having a TAJ number and having my 1st jab end of March., I still can’t get hold of the Hungarian certificate. I wonder when we’ll get more sketchy info about how to get this EU certificate.

  4. To travel it will be a journey of obstacles, and that only for a disease what is nothing more than an ordinaire Flu virus, but this all it have to be so, its all well prepared by the governments that in agreement with WEF, World Economic Forum. so under the cover of corona, to make the people obey what the government have to say.
    This EU Covid certificate is the first step they want to have to control you,
    does not seem worthy of recommendation that EU Covid certificate.
    Am sure more restrictions of freedom are coming up.
    What I here don’t read is if you don’t want to be vaccinated and you like to visit Hungary, What is the solution for this or is there no alternative ?

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