{"id":116056,"date":"2021-07-02T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=116056"},"modified":"2021-07-06T11:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T06:18:47","slug":"covishield-gets-nod-from-nine-european-countries-for-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/covishield-gets-nod-from-nine-european-countries-for-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Covishield gets nod from nine European countries for travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/covishield-gets-nod-from-nine-european-countries-for-travel\/article35089451.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Around nine countries in Europe have given recognition to the Covishield vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What was the issue?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>A lot of Indian travelers who were vaccinated with Covishield were not eligible for the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hope-to-resolve-covishield-eu-issue-soon-says-adar-poonawalla\/\">European Union\u2019s \u2018green pass\u2019.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This was because the European Union had excluded Covishield from the list of approved vaccines for the EU\u2019s Green Pass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Indian Government&#8217;s Response:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Government of India <\/strong>had requested the EU Member States to individually consider extending exemptions to those who have been administered Covishield or Covaxin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The genuineness of <\/strong>such vaccination certification can be authenticated on the CoWIN portal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Which countries have now included Covishield?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The list of the EU Member States <\/strong>that have recognized Covishield as a valid vaccine includes Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Spain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apart from that,<\/strong> Switzerland which is not an EU member has also included Covishield as a valid vaccine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further<\/strong>, Estonia has also recognised all vaccines authorised by the Indian government for travel to Estonia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Terms to know\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hope-to-resolve-covishield-eu-issue-soon-says-adar-poonawalla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Pass<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? Around nine countries in Europe have given recognition to the Covishield vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India. What was the issue? A lot of Indian travelers who were vaccinated with Covishield were not eligible for the European Union\u2019s \u2018green pass\u2019. This was because the European Union&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/covishield-gets-nod-from-nine-european-countries-for-travel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covishield gets nod from nine European countries for travel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704801036},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}