The announcement was made by Health Insurance.
Impossible to go to the cinema, to a restaurant, to a concert or even to travel. For more than a year, you absolutely had to have this document with you in paper or digital format via your phone, to move around freely. This mandatory document was the certificate of vaccination against Covid-19. Launched in April 2021, it represented the official certification of the French administration of vaccination against Covid-19 disease, in the midst of a pandemic.
If today health restrictions have been lifted, vaccination against Covid-19 must be able to be justified over time, as is the case for all vaccinations. Health Insurance also emphasizes that “certain foreign countries may have maintained entry, stay and exit conditions on their territory, regarding Covid-19”. You may therefore need your certificate to travel or in the event of an epidemic resurgence.
However, the website on which the vaccination certificate can be downloaded (Attestation-vaccin.ameli.fr) will close in a few days. This is what Health Insurance announced in a press release dated June 21, 2024: “This tool, which facilitated the management of vaccination campaigns during a health crisis, will be permanently closed on June 28, 2024.” Policyholders will be able to continue to download their certificates corresponding to injections carried out before June 28, 2024 until September 1, 2024 at midnight, from their ameli account or the “Vaccination certificate” teleservice. As of September 2, 2024, it will be permanently closed.
Also if you have not kept your vaccination certificates in paper format, now is the time to do so. You can also save them in the vaccination record of “My health space”, the personal and secure digital space created by Health Insurance and the Ministry of Health and which aims to become the digital health record of all French insured. The data recorded by professionals on the “Covid Vaccine” portal since the start of vaccination is kept by the digital department of the Ministry of Labor, Health and Solidarity for a period of 30 years.
As a reminder, vaccination against Covid-19 is still in force in France but the recommendations have evolved since September 2023. From now on, vaccination is recommended each year in the fall for people at risk of serious forms of the disease (65 years old). and more, pregnant women, nursing home residents, immunocompromised people, with comorbidities). And the injection of an additional dose of vaccine is recommended in the spring for people aged 80 and over, immunocompromised people and residents of nursing homes and USLDs, respecting a period of at least three months since the last dose. vaccine or last infection.
