Mumbai: A week after TII reported that at Milkaikars vaccinated abroad faced difficulties in getting a season ticket to travel by local trains, the BMC health department has issued a circular that allows local environment offices to authenticate the vaccination certificate of beneficiaries in foreign countries.
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“To travel through local trains, attend public / private establishments and to enter malls / theaters / restaurants, residents / employees need to send a vaccination certificate.
At present all who have taken vaccination in India can produce a Cowin-produced certificate, but there are no provisions About the Cowin portal to update vaccination status or to produce a certificate for citizens who have taken both doses outside of India.
MCGM accepts several requests from residents who have taken both doses outside India to consider it vaccination and allow them to benefit citizens who are fully vaccinated, “Declares a circle.
Circular October 25, aimed at the Medical Officer of Citizens A to T, has enabled them to authenticate foreign certificates.
Such residents need to provide self-declaration documents issued by the health authorities of each country and evidence of living in the country (passport, ticket, visa).
Suresh Kakani, Supplementary City Commissioner, Health, said in August, BMC has written to Secretary of the Ministry of Health and family welfare to make provisions in the Cowin Portal to update their vaccination status that has taken vaccines outside the country and have certificates or documents from the State Authority each.
“However, we are interested in allowing updates to be carried out directly to Cowin so that such citizens do not need to visit environmental offices.
But without a response, we have decided to start verification and physically authentication through the health of the medical officer from the ward concerned,” said Kakani.
Toi has reported in the citizens of the US returned US vaccinated with modera that cannot get train tickets.
They passed the medical foundation after the report.