96 nations say yes to India’s COVID vaccination certificate, health minister Mansukh Mandaviya

In a recent travel update, India and 96 countries have agreed to mutually recognise vaccination certificates of COVID-19, said union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the government of the United Kingdom has also informed that they will add India-made Covaxin to the list of approved vaccines. So travellers vaccinated with Covaxin can enter the country without quarantine mandates. The new rule will come into effect on November 22.

A statement released by the health ministry said, “At present, 96 countries have agreed to mutual recognition of vaccination certificates and also those who recognise Indian vaccination certificates of travellers fully vaccinated with COVISHIELD/WHO approved/nationally approved vaccines. Consecutively, persons travelling from these countries are provided certain relaxations as enunciated in Union Health Ministry’s Guidelines on International Arrivals…” The statement further mentions that the Union Government will keep communicating with the world so that beneficiaries of the world’s largest COVID vaccination program are accepted which will eventually help ease travel and tourism.
“Ministry of Health and Family Welfare along with the Ministry of External Affairs is in continuous communication with all countries for mutual recognition of vaccine certificates to facilitate hassle-free international travel across countries,” it said.

Meanwhile, all the big and small nations in the world have approved India’s vaccination certificate including the USA, Bangladesh, Mali, Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kyrgyz Republic, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Georgia, The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Tunisia and Australia, among others.