Will the Hungarian immunity app be accepted at the borders?

A mobile application that serves as a Covid-19 immunity certificate was launched in Hungary on Friday.

The EESZT app, available for Android and iOS, is operating in test mode at present. To use the app, registration on the www.eeszt.gov.hu website is necessary. Hungary earlier started issuing plastic Covid-19 immunity certificate cards to citizens who have been inoculated against the coronavirus.

Regarding what the app will be good for, there are more questions than answers yet. As telex.hu reported, the system was not working on Friday morning for hours. Interestingly, the government announced it in February and said that it would contain the type of vaccine people received, which the plastic card does not. However, the app does not show that, either, only

the name, TAJ (health insurance) number, the date of inoculation, and a statement of whether the person is protected against the virus or not.

Furthermore, it does not have the person’s ID or passport number, either.

Moreover, the app can be used only by those who were inoculated, so, for example, those who got the infection before and have a plastic card will not be able to use the application. According to the operative body,

the app substitutes the card.