The European health pass will come into effect on July 1. It will allow fully vaccinated people to travel within the European Union. Unvaccinated people must present a negative PCR test carried out 48 hours before the trip.
- Travel in Europe will be possible without quarantine obligation for holders of the health pass from July 1
- This pass will be issued to all those who have received the 2 doses of vaccine or who have carried out a PCR test less than 48 hours before their trip
If you have already received your two doses of vaccine against Covid-19, you will soon be able to access the European health pass, which will allow you to travel to the 30 EU countries from July 1, while avoiding quarantine measures. .
This “EU digital Covid certificate“free and non-compulsory is already available online and can be downloaded from the Health Insurance website. To obtain it, you will have to connect to the platform”FranceConnect“.
Concretely, all vaccinated people can already download it, including those who have only received one dose, Améli’s site stating “that a new version of the certificate will be available with each injection“.
The pass can be presented in digital form (including via the Tous Anti Covid application by scanning the QR code) or paper. People vaccinated before June 24 and who have already downloaded their French vaccination certificate will have to convert it to the European format, necessary to cross borders. For unvaccinated people, a PCR test negative carried out before less than 48 hours will be necessary to move in the EU.
Unclear for people infected before April 2021
If you have been infected with the virus between six months and two weeks earlieryou are in principle protected by natural immunity and it is also possible toe justify it by positive tests (RT-PCR or antigenic).
Problem: people who were infected with Covid-19 before April 2021 are currently excluded from obtaining this certificate, unless they carry out a complete vaccination or present a negative PCR test 48 hours before the event to which they want to participate.
According to information from the Ministry of Health relayed by the newspaper Point “Text messages will be sent from Monday June 28 to people who tested positive between March 28 and April 20. This measure is temporary since on July 6, certificates with a maximum seniority of three months can be obtained online“, specifies the article.
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