Ludhiana: Already jittery over non-resumption of direct international flights and countries not recognising Covaxin, prospective travellers are also facing another problem: getting their passport numbers entered into their vaccination certificates.
The doctors and staff at government and private hospitals daily get a lot of visitors who have got themselves vaccinated and want their passport numbers entered in their certificates.
A lot of people still do not know that they can do the correction themselves online.
According to Dr Harman Sidhu, in charge of a government dispensary, “Many people turn up at the dispensary with a common query that is it possible to get their passport numbers entered in the vaccination certificate if Aadhaar number is already mentioned in it.
There is a very simple method for it.
Either they can go to any vaccination centre and get the entry corrected or themselves change the ID in the certificate by visiting Co-Win portal and logging into their account.”Pulkit, a resident of College Road, said, “I am planning to fly to Dubai soon, requirements for which are vaccination certificate and a resident card.
I came to know that some people are facing issues during entry into some countries in case vaccination certificates do not mention their passport number.
Though there is no such instruction from the UAE, I don’t want to take any chances, so I also decided to get my passport number entered into the certificate which had my Aadhaar number mentioned.
The procedure is very simple and it took me a few minutes to get it corrected from the centre where I got the vaccine.” Explaining the procedure to enter the passport number in the certificate, Abhinav Sehgal, joint secretary of Ludhiana Business Forums, said, “First the person needs to visit https://www.cowin.gov.in/ and sign in with the mobile number which was given by him at the time of getting vaccinated.
After this, an OTP will be sent to that number and then the person needs to click on the link of ‘Raise an issue’ and then select the ‘Certificate correction’ option.
After this, in the photo ID number option enter the passport number.
One has to be very careful while entering the information as the change is allowed only once.”