Vaccine Certificate Correction – Update Mobile Number, Name, Address

Vaccine Certificate Correction: Since 2020, as per the government statistics over 100 crore citizens have been vaccinated to fight against one of the deadly coronavirus and its variants. But all those who got vaccinated are encountering some errors in their vaccine certificate due to man-made or computer-generated that are landing them into trouble. Now to rectify the problem, the Central government added a web page from which the vaccinators can edit the incorrect information mentioned inside their certificates. Inside this article, you will be getting detailed information about the Vaccine Certificate Correction.

Vaccine Certificate Correction

The vaccine certificate plays the role of an official document that allows people to travel from one place to another and hence all the details of applicants should be properly filled in but seeing the problems faced by the citizens in their certificates due to printing errors the Government of India decided to activate a Vaccine Certificate Correction for Modification & Edit Personal Details link on the CoWin website cowin.gov.in. The news about the addition of the vaccine correction link was shared on the official handle of the Aarogya Setu Twitter handle. The full procedure for the Vaccine Certificate Correction is explained below.

COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate Correction: Highlights

How to edit details in Covid-19 certificate?

Dear reader, if you are also facing the same situation about the mismatching of details in the certificate then read the following steps to edit them and get the edited Covid-19 certificate:

Steps to verify Vaccine Certificate and its authenticity

After getting vaccinated, you will be issued a vaccination certificate which will be proof sanctioned by the government that you’ve been vaccinated. The certificate will be having a QR Code to protect it against falsification and the authentication can be checked from the portal. The methods via which you can check the certificate’s authentication are:

Method 1

• Go to CoWin site and tick on the ‘Verify Certificate’ option.
• Click on the ‘Scan QR Code’ and a notification will pop out asking permission to activate your device’s camera.
• After allowing the camera, point the camera to the QR Code on the bottom right of the certificate issued and then scan.
• During the scanning process of the QR Code, keep the following pointers in mind:
  • The QR Code should cover at least 70%-80% of the screen.
  • Complete QR Code should be part of the camera frame.
  • QR Code should be parallel to the camera.
  • The camera should be held steadily for 05 seconds to 10 seconds.

• On the successful verification of the QR Code, the site will either say ‘Certificate Verified Successfully’ or in case of unsuccessful verification it will state ‘Certificate Invalid’.

Method 2

• Go to the CoWin verification service and code shared.
• Get the code snippet for reference and then implement it.
• Replace the public key used in the code snippet with the public key mentioned here.
• Now implement the verification services inside the Arogya Setu or Umang app to scan and go through all the pointers available inside the CoWin certificate.

Pointers mentioned inside the verification certificate

• Certification Veritification Message.
• Name.
• Age.
• Gender.
• Certificate ID.
• Beneficiary ID.
• Vaccine Name.
• Date of Dose.
• Vaccination Status.
• Vaccination at.