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Follow on Google News | Docsun Report On Digital Documentation of COVID-19 StatusBy: WHO and CDC Vaccination certificates have been with us for a while. They are health documents that record vaccination events of an individual over a period of time. Traditionally they were in a card form, a good example would be the Kenya Yellow Fever Card that accompanies the Kenyan Passport when visiting to and from a country with risk of Yellow Fever transmission. In the past card or paper based vaccination has had its fair part of challenges such as the possibility of losing or damaging the card in tragic events. Through digital documentation it is easier to retain accountability because each entry log is consistent with a particular individual. The Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates provide information to health care providers and practitioners about the vaccination status of individuals. WHOs guidance on Digital Documentation of COVID-19 On 27 August 2021, WHO published a guidance document for countries and implementing partners on the technical requirements for issuing digital certificates for vaccination against COVID 19. https://www.who.int/ A vaccination certificate can be purely digital (for example stored in a smartphone application or on a cloud-based server) and replace the need for a paper card, or it can be a digital representation of the traditional paper-based record. The link between the paper record and the digital record can be established using a barcode, for example, printed on or affixed to the paper vaccination card. A digital certificate should never require individuals to have a smartphone or computer. The minimum requirements for implementing digital documentation in countries around the world allow Member States the greatest possible flexibility to build a solution that is appropriate not just for their needs, but the diverse needs of individuals around the world. The guidance was developed in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary group of experts, to ensure that it will be useful to governments and implementing partners who have built or who are currently developing systems for issuing or verifying digital vaccination certificates. The technical content of the guidance has been made available to partner countries and economies that have developed, or are in the process of developing, national digital vaccination certificates to ensure that these digital certificate products will be interoperable. DocSun∙Computation∙ Original link to the article: - https://www.who.int/ End
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