The Valencian Community will issue from this Monday the COVID Digital certificate of the European Union (EU) in its three variants. The certificate is a proposal by the European Union to safely facilitate the free movement of citizens in the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic.
EU Digital COVID certificate
The objective is to function as a 'fast track' or fast circuit in order to speed up entry and exit procedures between the countries of the Union. Countries can now start issuing and using it and it will be available in all EU Member States from July 1, 2021.
Among the autonomous communities prepared to start issuing certificates to their citizens on June 7 is the Community, which will be the first date that this digital document can already be put into circulation.
The technical team that is part of the General Directorate of Planning, Technological Efficiency and Patient Care "has made a great effort to make available to Valencians and Valencians the possibility of obtaining the EU COVID Digital Certificates valid in all EU countries, safely and reliably, in the two co-official languages of the Community and in English, and both in person and online in record time ", has assessed Blanca Navarro, deputy director of the general direction of Promotion of the Health.
The certificates will be issued free of charge in electronic or paper version, at the request of the citizen with their SIP card. You can request it from the coronavirus portal, the GVA + Salud App or the patient portal. All of them meet the security criteria required by the Spanish Data Protection Agency. In addition, the possibility of obtaining a face-to-face certificate is contemplated by requesting an appointment in the counter agendas of your health center.
There are three types of certificate of which the QR accreditation is collected digitally, which will contain the essential information and the digital signature that gives it validity.
The COVID Digital Vaccination Certificate allows to prove that the person has received one or two doses of one of the vaccines against COVID approved by the EU. The validity of this certificate is 365 days after the vaccination date.
The COVID Digital Recovery Certificate accredits digitally, in the QR code, that the person has recovered from COVID after having confirmed their illness through a positive PCR test. This certificate will be valid from the end of the isolation period, day 11 of the positive PCR test until 180 days later.
The COVID Digital Test Certificate offers the accreditation that the person has a negative result of a diagnostic test for COVID, which can be PCR or antigen. In the case of the PCR test, the result will be valid for 72 hours and the validity of the antigen test will be 48 hours. In order to be able to accredit the results of the antigen tests, not any type of test is valid, but must have been performed with one of the commercial kits approved by the EU.
When traveling, the holder of the EU Digital COVID Certificate should, in principle, be exempted from restrictions on free movement: Member States should refrain from imposing additional travel restrictions on the holders of an EU Digital COVID Certificate , unless such restrictions are necessary and proportionate to safeguard public health. In any case, it is important that all people make sure of the requirements that each country has to travel.
