G20 Supports Indonesia To Issue Vaccine Certificate Verification System

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health said that the G20 countries support Indonesia's efforts to issue a system that can verify vaccine certificates to facilitate global travel.

"We call it a universal verifier for vaccine certificates. So there is a universal portal to verify countries that are members of this universal verification," said Health Technology expert staff of the Ministry of Health, Setiyadi at the G20 Health Working Group (HWG) press conference entitled "Harmonizing Global Health Protocol Standards" in Yogyakarta, reported by Antara, Monday, March 28.

The portal can identify travelers, including whether they have been vaccinated or not.

A total of 19 countries that are members of the G20 have tested the use of the universal portal. Only one country that has not tested is China because it is still in the technical process.

"We are testing it, then we are technically testing it, actually we just need to implement it because the testing is successful. It is hoped that the G20 event in October will be able to do it," continued Setiyadi.

Meanwhile, OECD Global Health Advisor Nick Tomlinson said what countries in the world could do was improve interoperability between different international systems.

"Vaccine certificates have been issued in different formats. Having an agreement on how to link the certificates would be a good step, the next to ensure a safe, reliable and sustainable system," he said.

Setiyadi said countries in the world need to ensure that a series of policies taken will be sustainable so that they are supportive towards an endemic.

"The current health situation is clearly improving. We are still living in a transition period from a pandemic to an endemic state," he said.

Previously, Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said that the alignment of global health protocol standards could begin in G20 countries to make international travel easier.

"We can start from the G20, that way it will facilitate the adoption of this health protocol standard to other countries," said Minister of Health Budi.

The Minister of Health said that aligning global health protocol standards aims to ensure that there are the same standards regarding travel regulations which have been different in each country.