Which countries will now accept the NHS covid vaccination app?

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• Nick says:

  31 Oct31 October 12:01

  Going to Germany next weekend, can someone confirm exactly what app it is? Is it the standard NHS app or the NHS covid pass verifier app? Not sure which? Also can I download the German app and upload the vaccination data to use that pass? Thanks

  • Rob says:

    31 Oct31 October 14:33

    No, you can’t use the German app – and indeed don’t need to.

    You just show the travel pass from your phone, which (on Apple) you can download to your wallet. Make sure you show the 2nd dose code.

  • Mike says:

    31 Oct31 October 15:02

    I had no problem with the NHS QR at immigration and the hotel when I visited Germany a fees weeks ago.

  • Aaron C says:

    31 Oct31 October 21:46

    Nick – I was there last weekend and all venues accepted the NHS QR code. I just downloaded the passes into Apple Wallet and that worked really easily.

• HH says:

  31 Oct31 October 12:34

  So is Switzerland breaking its agreement with the EU by still not accepting NHS QRs despite EU equivalence? Has anyone raised this with the UK Embassy in Berne?

  • Luke says:

    31 Oct31 October 13:38

    I don’t think so. Why do you think that?

    • HH says:

      31 Oct31 October 14:17

      On Friday the European Commission adopted decision 2021/1895 that gives UK certificates equivalence to those issued in EU countries under regulation 2021/953.

      Switzerland is not (yet) recognising and accepting them under the same conditions as an EU certificate, despite the EU declaring them equivalent.

      • Luke says:

        31 Oct31 October 15:41

        What is your data source for this to be the case?

        • Alun says:

          31 Oct31 October 16:04

          You can download, at least in Switzerland, the swiss COVID checker, and Scottish NHS certificate is ok but English and Welsh are not. Nhs also don’t show booster so original vaccination >180 days so you can’t get it from Kanton.

  • ChrisC says:

    31 Oct31 October 14:38

    Have you raised it with the Embassy?

    • HH says:

      31 Oct31 October 14:57

      My next trip is later in November, so I’ll give them a couple of days to see if they update the Swiss app / guidance.

• Jude says:

  31 Oct31 October 12:37

  Used the NHS pass in Italy two weeks ago, but were dinosaurs (we are 70!) and actually printed it out as a ‘belt and braces’ measure. Most places asked for it and the only museum that couldn’t read it let us through anyway. My only problem was trying to uploadit to the UK PLF….

  • andyT says:

    31 Oct31 October 12:45

    I was in Italy in June, Austria and Poland in September. My NHS app was accepted everywhere without any problems.

• William says:

  31 Oct31 October 13:32

  When I went to Italy earlier in October, found that the QR code generated real-time in the NHS app, and the ones saved in Apple Wallet is not recognised. Only the QR code in the offline PDF version was recognised without a problem.

• Alex Sm says:

  31 Oct31 October 14:12

  My partner and I have faced a patchy acceptance off UK certificates in Greece the other week. Some restaurants and bars scanned the first dose code and it didn’t work, then they scanned the second those code, and it worked. We were allowed in. Other places (maybe using different apps) scanned all possible codes we had, and none worked. We couldn’t get to one or two bars in the end or had to sit outside

  • Jude says:

    31 Oct31 October 14:14

    Ah…it’s a tough life, Alex…..

• Kieran says:

  31 Oct31 October 14:45

  Hi all,

  I see that the NHS COVID Pass is now accepted but does anyone know if Scotland’s Test and Protect COVID status is also now accepted? The EU website seems very vague on the issue and the fact there are different apps in different parts of the UK doesn’t seem to be mentioned in any of the press releases.

• Gavlar says:

  31 Oct31 October 16:01

  OT – With the opening of US now how likely is it that 2 4 1 will be extended and is this thread still apllicable https://hfp2022.headforpoints.blog/2021/08/06/how-to-extend-british-airways-amex-2-4-1

  • Rob says:

    31 Oct31 October 18:18

    Zero chance. BA started expiring them on 1st October and many readers have already lost them.

• Paul says:

  31 Oct31 October 17:04

  “This makes your life far easier when trying to get into restaurants and other venues.”

  Of course it needn’t have been difficult but for the immense stupidity of the Brexit vote!

  Making life easier now is good but of course it still remains a great deal more challenging than it previous was.

  The EU nations have far lower death rates and hospitalisation numbers because they have had the EU passport for many months and use them.

  • Pete1968 says:

    31 Oct31 October 17:46

    1. Brexit: we are where we are & have to move on. Not for me to say if the younger generation will certainly push to re-join the EU in (say) 20 years, no doubt on far worse terms than we had.
    2. The EU countries don’t actually have significantly worse Covid-19 figures on average – they simply measure things differently. It’s a widely-spread virus and affects all of Europe pretty much the same way. Same deaths over time ie 2 years. The main countries to have got away with it before the vaccines changed things for us all are China, Oz and NZ. Totalitarian lockdown/ democratic lockdown & closed borders verging on totalitarian/ democratic lockdown & closed borders verging on totalitarian.

    • Pete1968 says:

      31 Oct31 October 17:47

      edit – worse = better

      • Pete1968 says:

        31 Oct31 October 17:50

        edit – for 1. Brexit, worse = much worse

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