Gov’t to roll out digital vaccine verification database next week
The Government of the Virgin Islands will be rolling out its digital database of persons who have been vaccinated in the territory.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Ronald Georges said the database will be ready by next week. This database will be internationally recognised to meet the strict proof-of-vaccination requirements of other countries.
Vaccination cards like those issued in the BVI have been found to be inadequate for the international community since unscrupulous persons can easily create counterfeit copies of them. The BVI’s official vaccination database would mitigate against this issue.
“We’ve been working very, very closely with the Department of IT (Information & Technology) … and they have created an application — this will be web-based — where persons can go in there, put in their information, and then on the back end, we would verify. Once it’s been verified, they will automatically get their vaccine verification letter emailed to them,” Dr Georges explained.
He said a unique QR code will be automatically generated on each letter.
“So anybody who gets that letter can either scan the QR code or if they’ve uploaded the PDF, they can just click on the link and they can go straight back to the government’s website and verify that this person is indeed vaccinated,” the CMO further explained.
He continued: “That QR code can easily then be — [and] you can do this yourself or we can talk to the Department of IT to have an application on the website to do it — where you can then create a [digital] vaccine card which you can then put into your phone’s wallet. We haven’t gotten to that stage yet. What we’re ready to roll out at the beginning of next week is to launch the website.”
Meanwhile, the information that persons will be required to upload to get their QR-coded verification letter includes front and back copies of the physical vaccine cards they were given when they got vaccinated, a form of ID, among other things.
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Excellent work by our hard working medical teams!
Good going!
will these qr codes be linked to UK or Europe so they actually have any value internationally?
So does this mean anybody can now have access to other peoples Vaccination information through this data basis??? because this seems to be the headline for everybody lately. Everybody wants to know who is vaccinated.
You send an email with your vaccine information together with your ID. They verify both together and reply back to your email address with a letter containing a QR code and a PDF link. The code and the link is only about YOU.
How do you translate that to mean anybody can get access to other people’s information? This is much safer than the physical card, which you can lose or misplace. To protect your QR code just make sure to put a password on your phone.
all of this is a trap to get business to stop or restrict unvaccinated people, yall cant be so blind, this is a calm follow up of the war against the unvaccinated. If your vaccine protectS you ,im not your worries, herd immunity my foot, vaccines dont work that way.
System is up and running, Yah’s protection to those who have eyes to see, that follows his instructions.
Firstly. The epidemiologist is NOT a doctor. So people need to stop peddling that BS. Secondly I dont trust these people to come up with vaccine letters. They dont answer their fones. People waiting in quarantine days longer than they should. The rules at the ports so ambiguous and senseless. That whole department need firing….
K buena iniciativa muchos k no kieren vacunarse tan yenando targeta para decir k estan vacunado
From February, it has been said that the vaccination cards are useless. Other countries have had such digital certificates for ages. So, as usual, the BVI is behind. And don’t hold your breath that it will actually work. (Look at the entry portal, the Labour application, etc. for recent disasters in technology implementation in the BVI)