The ‘green pass’ digital vaccination certificate will be available to Greek citizens as of June 1, the Digital Governance Ministry said on Saturday.
According to state-run news agency amna, inoculated citizens can log into gov.gr with their taxis-net or social security (AMKA) numbers and have their certificate issued.
The vaccination passes are protected against forgery by a digital signature and a QR code, the ministry said adding that they are valid across the European Union bloc.
The announcement comes after the European Union’s decision on Thursday to adopt a Covid-19 vaccination Digital Green Certificate, following the agreement of the European Parliament and the European Council to adopt the European Commission’s proposal for the certificate that will simplify travel among EU member states, after Greece’s initiative to that effect.
The Digital Green Certificate is practically the electronic confirmation that a person has been inoculated against the pandemic or has been tested with negative result or has recovered from the covid-19, notes amna.
aaahhh…. this is a great success, however not for expats in Greece. Living in Greece for about 10 years, i am trying since November to get an AMKA, in the beginning pushed away…fyge, fyge.
I was sent from KEP to IKA, from IKA to EFKA, from EFKA back to KEP… Ping pong. Then being advised to use the website for “rendezvous”… the website did not work, telephone calls unanswered. And finally in May i managed to get an provisional AMKA only for vaccination, however, it did not work in the emvolio gov gr system… software obviously not working properly, email not answered.
In a newspaper artikel the Digital Governance Ministry stated… sorry, software not ready yet…. since Mar 2020 the COVID 19 problem is existing, oups.
Well done with the Green Certificate, well done. May be my lifespan is not enough to achieve it.
Or… maybe i will drive to Serbia to get an easy vaccination process.
This is the way how GR government cares about foreign retirees spending their money in Greece…. in all other EU countries foreigners living there are fully vaccinated without problems. Obviously Greece is not Europe. It is a shame in regard to all the money Greece took from Europe to overcome the COVID financial problems…
It’s a shame!!!
The best news so far..👏👏👏❤️🤗
Rather than saying that Greek citizens can get a covid certificate to allow travel the wording should also include non Greek residents. I have a biometric card as a long standing resident of Greece but I am also entitled to this certificate.
I assume that paper certificates will be available for those who have been vaccinated in Greece but do not have a tax number and only have a temporary AMKA number or for those who don’t have a phone?
I can’t comment on the new EU certificate but the existing Greek certificate is available in paper form. The certificate is simply a pdf document with all the details on it and a QR code. The QR code simply provides an electronic link to the stored document on the government web site. You can store the pdf document however you like, e.g. on paper, on a smart phone, on a tablet or on a laptop. I don’t know if the EU one will work in the same way.
the Greek certificate is not the Green Certificate
I think chris is making the point that if you don’t have a tax number or an amka number you cannot even log on to the government web sites! Let alone get a document from them. For a country that is supposedly trying to attract foreign investment and digital nomads …..they are instead actually getting rid of the people who are already here through this stupid system. If they gave us (resident foreigners) all (approx 20,000) amka numbers it would all be fine after all, the 300,000 greeks in uk get FULL health care. I do not for the life of me understand why they don’t!
come on greece! this rediculous rubbish is why so many of us foreigners are going to leave ………..it IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE! Just sort it out ………………NOW. ANYONE vaccinated should get a certificate regardless ………….even if they come from the moon!!!!!!! You are shooting yourselves in the face with all this beaurocracy.
Why can I not used my Dutch ID card number for the “Green Pass” ? I have an afiemi and an amka number and I can login taxisnet. What is the reason?
Already made my plans to leave after 12 years here.
If I were hosting a dinner party and there were a guest I wanted to get rid of, I would treat them exactly the same way the Greek government has treated me over the last year.