Thread by @jonworth

Hey, residents of England!

You're getting vaccine passports

Let those of us in 🇪🇺 who have been using these for some time explain a little about the system... because (whisper it quietly!) the tech is compatible with EU systems! 🤯

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Basically there are two parts to it

How you show you are vaccinated

And how a venue of some sort checks that you are

How you show you're vaccinated - here the QR code you show is crucial

But HOW you show it DOES NOT MATTER. So if you show it in the NHS England app, as a PDF, printed out, laser engraved into a piece of metal or some other way *it is OK*

This is especially important in 🇬🇧 as 🥁 not all parts of the UK have the same apps!

(Hey, even decentralised 🇩🇪 with 16 Länder managed that better, but hey, I digress...)

But the crux is someone vaccinated in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 will not have the same app to show the QR as someone from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The crucial App is hence the VERIFIER app that can scan and verify QR codes - the app someone would use at the entrance to a venue

That's the NHS COVID Pass Verifier

iOS
apps.apple.com/gb/app/nhs-cov…

Android
play.google.com/store/apps/det…

So *any* QR code showing you completed your course of vaccination (or got your booster) in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland should show as VALID ✔️ in the NHS COVID Pass Verifier - regardless of the means you use to show the QR code

If you doubt it, test it!

And - because the UK joined the EU DCC scheme - QR codes from all 27 EU Member States, and Switzerland and Norway and a slew of other non-EU countries in the EU DCC scheme will also work to get into venues

Now - this being the UK it is not all plain sailing

Someone not vaccinated in the UK is still considered differently with regard to testing requirements when entering the UK, so do check that before travelling

But - based on the experience of these systems in 🇧🇪🇳🇱🇸🇮🇦🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪 in the past few months - that looks like it is how it's going to work in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Thread presented for info only - have your arguments about pros/cons of this elsewhere please

/ends