Google will bring digital vaccine cards to Android phones


A Chilean athlete shows a vaccination record card reading ‘I get vaccinated’ in Santiago, Chile. People will soon be able to store their vaccination or Covid-19 status on their phone and access it at any time, as long as their health care organisation or government has opted into Google’s system, the tech giant announced. — Reuters

Alphabet Inc’s Google will begin letting people easily store their vaccine records on Android devices, adding to a push from some companies and states to digitise evidence of the shot.

People will be able to store their vaccination or Covid-19 status on their phone and access it at any time, as long as their health care organisation or government has used Google’s system to make their results available to them digitally using the new tools, Google announced in a blog post on Wednesday. The feature is starting in the US but coming to more countries, though Google did not specify which ones. The company said it does not keep a copy of the information.

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