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I have faith in you too. Buen CaminoI concur 110% with the above. I hasten to add - ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN B. If you are bound and determined to go do a Camino in Europe, there are multiple ways to enter legally.
Assuming you are fully vaccinated and can prove it, you need to be well-read, researched, and always, ALWAYS remain flexible to last-minute changes. From my perspective, the disease situation on the ground, while much improved, is still dynamic as new variants arrive. So, we need to be informed and prepared.
The ever-present Plan B is a living evolving alternative.
I am dealing with this evolving situation by not going until September to volunteer or just be a tourigrino. My recent severe illness precludes me from traveling earlier. I am still pending some surgery, and medical clearance to fly. I have faith.
Hope this helps.
Tom
Although I don't know the details, I've read today that Belgium will also use a national "pass", similar to France, which will be used for access to large scale outdoor events for example, proving that the holder is either vaccinated or had a recent negative test. I remember having read that the French health pass or pass sanitaire was subject to a controversial vote in the French parliament and is only allowed to be used until the end of September. The Belgian pass will be called Covid Safe Ticket.Don't confuse the EU DCC QR code with the Spanish SpTH QR code that is already in use for tourists arriving to airports in Spain, or the French TousAntiCovid QR code that is already in use and will be used to control access to large scale events and similar, or any other national scheme that one or the other EU country already uses or comes up with and that is only for domestic consumption. Avoid needless confusion.
The same goes for Norway. The purpose is to not count fully-vaccinated people in large events, giving room for more people attending than the allowed limits of people.Although I don't know the details, I've read today that Belgium will also use a national "pass", similar to France, which will be used for access to large scale outdoor events for example, proving that the holder is either vaccinated or had a recent negative test.
The French TousAntiCovid app, which is a combo app of a warning & tracing app + an app for scanning codes at restaurants and other venues + an app for storing Covid-19 test results, is easy to set up and easy to use. Contains plenty of information on usage and rules and general Covid info. Has an English language version that looks well written. It has a wallet for storing French Covid test results; you can scan the code of an official French test result document (sample shown in the app) to load the information in the app's wallet. Ditto for French vaccination documents. They are in a national format and do not correspond to the EU DCC standard.Since I like to know what I am talking about, I've actually downloaded the French TousAntiCovid app from the App Store.
If you're an American making your way over soon, I would say, until further (official) information is available, don't stress about the EU Covid Certificate. IF you are eligible to come over to the EU, you are not eligible right now to get the certificate anyway.
So at the very least, any pilgrims starting in France should be able to obtain this certificate, although that might require the ability to travel there in the first place.
And with this, we've come full circle.If you had your vaxx or test outside France and the EU and it's not digitally compatible, then just use your paper certificate as explained in the article.
This will be through recognition by the EU of third country digital certificates, as President Macron has alluded to.This thread is mainly about how non-EU nationals who do not live in the EU and did not get vaccinated in the EU (+ 4 other countries) can/could get an EU Digital Covid Certificate as proof of their vaccination. In France, in Spain, in Portugal or another EU+ country.
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