VerificaCOVID, the application to verify the covid passport

The Government’s own application to verify authenticity of the covid certificate, Check COVID, which was used to access nightlife, will now also be used to enter restaurants, residences and gyms in Catalonia.

With this application you can verify the COVID certificates issued by the member states of the EU and also the certificates of the United Kingdom in the same format as the EU digital COVID Certificate, as recorded on the same website of the app.

In various languages

The application allows you to do the steps in various languages (In addition to Catalan and Spanish, it is in English, French, German and Italian). There is also a tab in which to activate the camera, from where you can capture the QR.

Introducing the certificate QR code and the DAYS and the app it will give a green or red signal that will or will not allow access.

Guaranteed data protection

When the application was presented in October, Puigneró insisted that Check COVID It will not be for the user, but for the person you have to allow access to a certain place. Once the QR code that appears on the covid certificate has been passed, the application issues a green or red traffic light with the name and date of birth, which must be verified with the DNI. The green traffic light will be obtained if you have the complete vaccination schedule, a negative PCR or if you have passed the covid in the last six months. The user can provide the QR on paper or via mobile phone.

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The vice president assured that the Data Protection and that is precisely why they work in a own app. He also thanked other initiatives, but has valued that the maximum guarantees on data protection must be given. “You only have to prove that you are vaccinated and that you are of legal age, you do not need more information than this, the verifier does not have to know anything more about you, “he explained.