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Can you get a Danish coronapas with a foreign vaccination certificate?

Getting a vaccination registered on your Danish coronapas means an end to all the endless testing. But can you use a foreign vaccination certificate to do that?

Published: 21 June 2021 16:32 CEST
Can you get a Danish coronapas with a foreign vaccination certificate?
This German AstraZeneca certificate can be used to get a valid coronapas in Denmark. Photo: Ina Fassbender/AFP

How is it supposed to work? 

According to the Danish authorities’ Coronasmitte website, it is possible to use a foreign vaccination certificate to get a valid Danish coronapas, so long as: 

  • The vaccine used has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (currently Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. 
  • It has been at least 14 days since your first dose 
  • You then have had your second jab within 42 days of your first dose 

How do you register your foreign vaccination? 

If you have a valid Danish CPR number and a NemID,  you can log onto the Sundhed.dk or “min læge” app  and upload your vaccination documents, along with the batch number and the dates.

Once these have been approved by a doctor, the information will be registered and visible on your coronapas within a few days. 

What if I don’t have a Danish CPR number and a NemID? 

If you have a doctor in Denmark, you can still visit them with your physical vaccination certificates. Once they have registered them and uploaded them to the system, you should then automatically receive a paper version of the coronapas in your postbox. 

How does it work in practice? 

Pretty well it seems, although there are reports of some doctors refusing to put vaccination carried out in some countries into the system. 

Tom Seabury, from the UK, went to see his doctor in person with a photocopy of his “handwritten, scruffy cardboard” UK vaccine records. 

“He merely entered the details then warned me that it could take (hold your breath) one or even two days! to filter into the coronapas systems. Next morning it was all done. No cost, no hassle.” 

Jim Frater, from the US, got his US vaccination registered on his coronapas a week after visiting his doctor. 

However, one foreigner who got vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson in Hungary complained his doctor flat-out refused to put the vaccination into the system. 

Ana Chikitovic initially struggled to convince her doctor to register the Pfizer vaccinations she had in Serbia, with the doctor saying there were no instructions from the health ministry on how to handle vaccinations from outside the EU.

She got her pass, however, when the travel guidelines were changed last Friday. 

What can you do if your doctor doesn’t refuses to register a foreign vaccination?

You can change doctor. Some people have also managed to get their vaccination registered using the hejdoktor.dk private internet doctor site. 

Member comments

  1. Perhaps you could write about how Americans who frequently visit Denmark could easily participate in Coronapas?

    (I for example do have a California state vaccination digital record of two Pfizer shots by March plus the CDC paper card.)

    Tak.

    1. I am also interested in this.
      For example, how can vaccinated friends and family visiting from the US use the coronapas, if they do not have nemid, cpr or a doctor in DK.

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HEALTH

Can you get a covid vaccine in Denmark if you’re not in the at-risk groups?

If you’re not in one of the ‘high risk’ categories, a covid booster can be hard to come by in Denmark.

Published: 5 February 2024 13:53 CET
Can you get a covid vaccine in Denmark if you’re not in the at-risk groups?

A growing body of research indicates that keeping your covid vaccination up to date decreases your risk of long covid—a range of cardiovascular, neurological and respiratory symptoms that can be debilitating. But accessing the vaccine booster is not straightforward in Denmark if you are not within one of the ‘risk groups’ for the national annual booster scheme.

Ahead of winter 2023, the Danish government made a significant change to its covid vaccination policy. From November 2022 until October 2023, anyone who wanted to get vaccinated could do so at the government vaccination centres for a modest fee.

But in October 2023, the Danish government said it was bowing out of the elective booster game, since “vaccines will be sold on the private market under normal market conditions,” the Danish Health Ministry (Sundhedsministeriet) wrote.

READ ALSO: Covid-19 no longer given special status in Denmark

But it seems pharmacies and private clinics didn’t step in to fill the void the way the Danish government expected—although public health websites linked out to the Apotek pharmacy chain as a resource for voluntary covid vaccination, Apotek pharmacy confirmed to the Local Denmark via email that they did not offer paid covid vaccines this year.

As of February 5th, the only option for a voluntary covid booster in the Greater Copenhagen metropolitan area is through Copenhagen Medical, a private clinic in Sankt Annæ Plads near Nyhavn that offers a range of travel vaccines and tests. The Pfizer booster costs 920 kroner.

Other companies offer paid vaccinations, but the closest clinics are at least 30 km away (for instance, the Danske Lægers Vaccinations Service offers paid covid vaccines at their Roskilde and Hillerød locations).

The public covid vaccine campaign ended on January 15th, by when 1.1 million people had received a Covid vaccine during the 2023-2024 season in Denmark, according to the State Serum Institute, Denmark’s infectious disease agency.

SSI told the Local that it is unable to determine how many of those were through the public vaccination programme and how many were paid for at private clinics.

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