From Monday, May 24, vaccinated people may apply via an e-mail address on the korona.gov.sk website for a bilingual vaccination certificate. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry is negotiating with health insurance companies for people to have their vaccination certificates directly delivered within the insurer's app. The Ministry is also coordinating with the mass vaccination centers so that they can replace different types of certificates they administer with one unified sample.
However, the head doctor of the Bratislava self-governing region, Tomáš Szalay, asks people not to go to the largest vaccination center based at the National Football Stadium just to have their international vaccination certificates confirmed. "We don't have the time to do it. It takes two minutes to confirm the passes, and we just can't afford it," Szalay said. People should apply for the certificates via email.
Meanwhile, second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines are being administered at the National Football Stadium as of Thursday. Several thousands of people have cancelled their appointments for AstraZeneca. Health Minister Vladimír Lengvarský is aware of this problem and says that it is up to experts to decide whether people can be vaccinated with a jab from another company. However, this should not pose a problem for a certificate, Lengvarský noted.
The situation concerning the epidemic in Slovakia has been improving in weekly terms, while at the same time it is also relatively favourable in neighbouring countries. According to Health Analyses Institute head Matej Mišík, Slovak hospitals are admitting 50 new COVID-19 patients per day on average, while 50 percent of ICU beds are vacant at the moment. Meanwhile, vaccination centres are managing to inoculate 20,000 people daily. Most of the applicants in the queue - 46,000 - are waiting for a vaccination term in Bratislava.
