Q&A: Who is eligible for the digital Covid cert and how can you get yours?
of Digital Covid Certs are being issued this month. However, confusion reigns over who will receive them, how people can get them, and what precisely they’ll be used for. Here’s what you need to know.There are three categories of people eligible: those who are vaccinated, those who have recovered from Covid, and those with a recent negative Covid test result.People who have been vaccinated in mass vaccination centres will receive them over email.
It’s also not quite clear how it will be checked whether you’ve recovered from Covid. The Health Service Executive has a database of everyone who tested positive, but recovery from a diagnosis is a bit more complex. Also, getting one won’t be immediate – best estimates are that it will take about five days to issue once a valid request goes in. There’s about 130,000 people with a Covid diagnosis in the past six months, which is the period covered. This is one area where several unanswered questions remain.There is confusion between obtaining a DCC and obtaining access to a restaurant or pub for indoor dining. For those recovered from Covid, you can get a DCC only by contacting the call centre.
So, for obtaining a cert, you’ll have to go through the call centre. Once you have that cert, you can access indoor dining, but it does seem other proofs of recovery will be accepted for that specific purpose. Again, there’s no shortage of uncertainty and unanswered questions here.This will have to be done with a specially commissioned test from a private operator – it cannot be done using a HSE test result.
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