The Guardian - I can’t update my Covid vaccine record to get a vital pass in Italy

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I can’t update my Covid vaccine record to get a vital pass in Italy

Link [2022-01-28 20:17:30]

I have had to cancel business and social arrangements and am afraid I may not be able to fly back to UK

My Covid booster vaccination in October does not appear on my NHS app, leaving me in a desperate situation. For the last month I’ve been in Italy where a “super green pass” is required for access to public transport and all indoor public spaces, but it expires 270 days after the last vaccination. My second jab, last April, is now invalid. I’ve been trying since November to get this resolved. The NHS website directed me to 119, which referred me to the Vaccine Data Resolution Service (VDRS). It was supposed to ring me within three weeks. Six weeks on, I’m still waiting, but the 119 number doesn’t work from Italy. I have had to cancel all future social and business arrangements and I am concerned that I may not even be able to access the airport to fly home. I cannot be the only one caught up in this.MT, London

Indeed you are not, which is why the VDRS was set up for patients registered to an English GP who received their jab in England. NHS England wouldn’t comment on whether it’s struggling with a backlog of incomplete vaccine records, but in an email to you a caseworker explained that demand had been higher than expected.