CoWIN allows users to link vaccine certificate to passports. Here’s how to do it
Mangalore Today News Network
New Delhi, Jun 26, 2021: The government’s CoWin portal is now enabling users to link their vaccination certificates to passports for use during travel.
“Now, you can update your passport number in your vaccination certificate,” the official handle of Aarogya Setu app tweeted.
Now you can update your Passport number in your vaccination certificate.
— Aarogya Setu (@SetuAarogya) June 24, 2021
Login to https://t.co/S3pUooMbXX.
Select Raise a Issue
Select the passport option
Select the person from the drop down menu
Enter passport number
Submit
You will receive the new certificate in seconds. pic.twitter.com/Ed5xIbN834
How to link Passport to vaccination certificate?
-Visit the official portal of CoWin — www. cowin.gov.in.
-Click on the ’Raise an issue’ option.
-Then click on the ’Passport’ option and select the person, whose certificate you want to link, from the drop-down menu.
-Enter your passport number and submit the details.
In case there is a mismatch of details between the vaccine certificate and passport, one can also edit the details.
How to edit personal details?
-Visit the official portal of CoWin — www. cowin.gov.in.
-Click on the ’Raise an issue’ option.
-Then click on the ’Correction in certificate’ option and select the person, whose details you want to change, from the drop-down menu.
-Select the options you need to make corrections and edit the details.
-Then submit.
Earlier this month, the Government of India had announced new guidelines for Covid-19 vaccination, asking those going abroad for education, jobs, or as part of the Indian contingent for the Tokyo Olympic Games, to get their vaccination certificates linked to passports.
Courtesy:India Today