Now you can add passport details on COVID vaccination certificate via CoWin app: here's how to do it

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With international travellers facing difficulty, the Union Health Ministry's CoWin portal has started enabling users to link their COVID-19 vaccination certificates to passports.

The Aarogya Setu app also shared the process for updating or correcting passport details in the certificates. "Now, you can update your passport number in your vaccination certificate," the government said.

CoWin platform is scalable, can take up to 2 crore vaccinations a day, momentum here to stay: RS Sharma

In case name on certificate does not match name on passport, you can request for name correction as well

Entering passport number and requesting name change can only be done once, so please ensure there are no mistakes in entering the details

— Aarogya Setu (@SetuAarogya) June 24, 2021

Apart from sharing the above details, the guidelines to update or correct passport details in coronavirus vaccination certificates were shared online.

Here's how to link your passport to your vaccination certificate:

1) Open the official portal of CoWin — www.cowin.gov.in.
2) Log in with your credentials.
3) Select the 'Raise an issue' option.
4) Click on the 'Passport' option and select the person, whose certificate you want to link, from the drop-down menu.
5) Enter passport number.
6) Submit the details.

The user will receive the new updated certificate 'in seconds', once the process is complete.

If your personal details on the certificate and the passport don't match, you can request for correction as well on the website.

Here's how to edit personal details:

1) Go to the official portal of CoWin -- www.cowin.gov.in.
2) Select the 'Raise an issue' option.
3) Click on the 'Correction in certificate' option and select the person, whose details the user want to change, from the drop-down menu.
4) Click on the options you need to make corrections and edit the details.
5) Click on submit.

It is to be noted that entering a passport number and requesting a name change can only be done once.