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Greece has also announced it would accept vaccine certificates of travellers from other countries who have been vaccinated with vaccines that haven’t been approved by EMA yet, as long as they are certified by an official authority of that country.
At the beginning of this week, the CEO of SII, Adar Poonawalla had commented on media reporting that the Covishield vaccines were not accepted for travel to the EU under the block’s Digital COVID Certificates. Whilst stating that he would take the issue to the highest EU instances while hoping to get the approval of Covishield from EMA.
The EU COVID-19 Travel Certificate is a document designated for EU nationals who have been fully vaccinated against the Coronavirus, with one of the vaccines approved by EMA, which are Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson.
The certificate came into force yesterday in the EU Member States, except for Ireland, which will start issuing and verifying the certificates only by the middle of the month after a recent cyber-attack on the Irish Health Service Executive.
While the EU has advised the Member States to issue and verify certificates for all those vaccinated with one of the vaccines approved by EMA, it has also permitted the Member States to issue such certificates and accept them for those vaccinated with vaccines by other manufacturers.
The differences in the vaccines accepted by the Member States have created confusion among travellers. This new tool developed by VisaGuide.World enables travellers to check whether the country they are planning to visit soon has approved the vaccine that the traveller has been immunized with against COVID-19.
For the moment in reference to the confusion, there has been no “official” by our Government.
Source:- schengenvisainfo
