The persons who were given a vaccine against COVID-19 abroad can get the second shot in Moldova on their own responsibility, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection has said, being quoted by IPN.
The Ministry noted that Moldova does not have all the types of vaccine available at international level. Some of the vaccine types can be absent from the stock. The persons should inform themselves beforehand if the Vaccination Center has available vaccines. The supplies of vaccines made by the Gamaleya Instite (Sputnik – V) and by Pfizer/BioNTech (Comirnaty) are limited.
The persons who received the first shot abroad and want to be vaccinated with the second dose in Moldova will not be issued with a complete vaccine certificate as the electronic system (RVC19) cannot generate certificates that include doses administered abroad as well as the vaccine series, the institution that administered the vaccine, etc. If the persons go abroad, they should find out if the given certificate will be accepted or not.
Those who get two doses in Moldova receive a vaccinate certificate that is automatically generated by the Electronic COVID-19 Vaccination Register (RVC19). The certificate is issued in Romanian, Russia and English. To ensure the security of the data present in the certificate, a QR code, the signature and the stamp are applied on it.
Currently, the vaccine certificates are not recognized by the WHO at international level. Each country creates the own mechanism for validating such certificates.
