Registration of a booster shot received in Spain not yet possible in the Netherlands
MADRID – At the end of December 2021, the Dutch GGD already warned that booster shots placed abroad cannot be recorded in the Dutch CornaChcek app. Now, almost a month and a half later, nothing has changed and Dutch people who have had a booster shot in Spain, among other things, cannot have it saved in the Dutch app yet. Something that is possible in Belgium, the Dutch lampreys can also be registered in Spain.
In the Netherlands, it is not yet possible via the current system to have a booster shot that has been taken abroad in the CoronaCheck app. According to various newspaper reports, the Dutch government is working on improving the smartphone app, but they have been saying that for months. In the meantime, a booster shot placed abroad as an admission ticket for, among other things, the catering industry in the Netherlands, but not via the Dutch CoronaCheck app but via a foreign app or a printed or digital PDF document.
Especially now that the European digital corona certificates expire after 270 days of nine months if no booster shot has been taken, the registration of booster shots received abroad is more important than ever. After all, there are many Dutch people who have had a booster shot in Spain during the winter. But back in the Netherlands they find out that the administration via the GGD does not seem to work and their booster shot is not really seen, after all, it cannot be registered in the CoronaCheck app.
It is not known in the Netherlands how many Dutch people have had a booster shot abroad, mainly because there is no administration. In exceptional cases it is quite possible to leave a booster shot placed abroad in the Netherlands not for the CoronaCheck app but for a printed version of a certificate, something that can only happen at a planned location in Utrecht, Groningen and Rotterdam. so reports this newspaper on Saturday.
With that paper proof you can go to the bars and restaurants, but traveling within Europe may not be necessary to have all three corona shots in the CoronaCheck app. On this website of the Rijksoverheid.nl There is more information about getting a vaccination certificate after vaccination abroad. Check out the website for questions and answers about this situation.
There are many readers from Spain who have let us know via e-mail that they could have the first two vaccinations exported in Spain in order to have a booster shot placed. Later they received a certificate in Spain that allowed them to travel. Incidentally, there are also readers who have emailed the response that they could simply have the booster shot put in the Dutch CoronaCheck app.
Use of a foreign smartphone app such as the German Corona-Warn-App from health organization France Robert Koch Institute or in the TousAntiCovid app.
In Spain there is no national smartphone app, but as we describe HERE in our article you can use the SpTH app where you can scan / load a QR code that appears on your phone. Foreign corona apps use the European corona certificate that can be digitally downloaded everywhere in the Netherlands, Belgium and other EU countries as an admission ticket.
Spanish Corona app
In Spain, there is no smartphone app nationally, but as we do HERE in our article describe how to use the SpTH app where you can scan/load a QR code that will appear on your phone. Foreign corona apps use the European corona certificate that can be digitally downloaded everywhere in the Netherlands, Belgium and other EU countries as an admission ticket.
According to the GGD, every booster shot, whether it is given in the Netherlands, Germany or Spain, is good news for the Products that the administration of a foreign booster shot in the Dutch CoronaCheck app is not possible. that is why the advice, especially because of the administration, remains to have the boosterpik placed in the Netherlands.
And in Belgium?
On this website of Flanders.be the following can be read: Did you receive a vaccine outside Belgium (1st dose, 2nd dose booster shot)? You can also get a vaccination certificate since the beginning of July 2021 if you meet the following 2 conditions and have your official permission registered by your guarantee:
You have an INSS number (national register number or BIS number), ie EITHER Belgian nationality; EITHER your main residence in Belgium; OR you are the partner or child of someone with Belgian nationality; OR you are the type of partner of a person with main residence in Belgium; OR you work or study in Belgium.
You can provide reliable proof of your foreign vaccination (proof of each individual injection is necessary) stating the vaccine used, the recorded dose and the date of vaccination.
According to the website of CovidSafe.be In Belgium, it is also possible to register a booster shot received abroad in the Belgian CividSafeBE app. you must present the foreign vaccination certificate and identity document to a Belgian doctor to have it registered in the Belgian database. Two days after registration, your certificate is ready and can be found in the CovidSafeBE app. Does it not work digitally? Keep your national registration number of the BIS number to hand and call 078 78 78 50 to have a paper version sent.