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Where to get your vaccination certificate to travel abroad – Georgian Health Ministry publishes instructions

At the request of the receiving country, this certificate can be verified by an apostille from the Public Service Development Agency. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

Agenda.ge, 28 Jul 2021 - 18:36, Tbilisi,Georgia

Vaccinated individuals can receive a certification of their status for the purpose of traveling abroad at the medical institution where they received their jab, the Georgian Health Ministry stated today.

The Covid-19 vaccine certificate includes the following information:

Personal data of the vaccinated individual: name, surname, personal number, date of birth
Vaccine details: dose, manufacturer, date
Name of the medical institution which administered the vaccine
Information on the results of Covid-19 testing and the research laboratory (if any).

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) will also issue a certificate of vaccination for Covid-19.

At the request of the receiving country, this certificate can be verified by an apostille from the Public Service Development Agency.

The Health Ministry also stated that the apostille procedure is a temporary measure until European countries accept Georgian Covid passports with QR codes.

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