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Android phones will soon shop your COVID vaccination card — here's how

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Getting vaccinated is important, but and then is being able to prove your vaccination status for certain things. Y'all can carry a vaccination card, or you could let Google Pay carry it effectually for yous.

Google (opens in new tab) has just announced that the Google Pay app is now capable of saving (and displaying) COVID-xix vaccination cards. Though right now merely it's only available through a select number of health providers inside the U.S.

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Regular Google Pay owners might be aware that the app typically simply works on a single device. So setting it upwards on your new phone means your one-time phone can't be used to brand payments. A sensible security measure if there ever was 1.

That won't be the instance with your COVID vaccination card, yet. As part of Google Pay's new 'Passes API', which can be used to store not-payment cards and loyalty cards, your digital COVID vaccination carte volition be available on multiple devices if you wish information technology to be.

Of course, this only works if your vaccine card provider has made the vaccine cards available in digital form, and even then only if the new API is supported.

Judging from Google's ain example image, information technology looks as though the digital vaccination card will have all the bones information most you and the vaccines you received. That includes which vaccine provider administered the shots, what shots you had, when you got them, and which lots you really received.

In that location's also a QR code, which will presumably allow all that information to be accessed by someone else, presumably a doctor or health insurance company, when necessary.

It'southward worth mentioning that these cards are stored locally, and don't impact the cloud. While this does have the added benefit of it non being shared with third parties, or used for targeted ads, it ways the card will have to exist added to additional devices manually. Assuming you want it to exist attainable on more than than one device.

Like payment cards, you also won't be able to add your COVID vaccination menu to Google Pay unless the device has a lock screen. Your phone also needs to be Play Protect certified, and has to run Android 5 or subsequently.

Currently the selection to add your digital vaccination card to Google Pay is limited to select providers inside the United States. Withal, Google has promised it will start rolling out to other countries soon.

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