Berlin EU Digital Covid Certificate

I don’t know the answer to your question but I just returned from visiting my daughter in Berlin and every restaurant accepted my handwritten vaccine card without question.

Payntertx
Just to clarify, when did you get your 2nd vaccine shot? I am wondering if the CDC card will still be accepted if the last shot was more than a year ago.
Many thanx...

As far as I know you will not get a "EU Digital Covid Certificate" based on your US vaccination.
I guess you need daily tests.

Prior infomation to your travel:

• Center districts of Berlin see currently a strong rise in infection numbers, starting at 360 (daily updated details). Berlin average yesterday: 315, today 339 (not published on this website so far). Two districts of Brandenburg with direct city limits to south of Berlin (LK PM, LK DS) reached 7-day incident numbers of over 500 today.
• Unfortunately numbers show also some vaccination breakthroughs - a range between 10-30% of infections in Germany happen to vaccinated people (regional differences).
• On Monday (2 days ago) the city of Berlin increased measures against the Corona virus.

Are you already familiar with "Quarantine, testing and reporting obligations for those entering the state of Berlin" on this Berlin authority page and with Digital Registration on Entry?

A list of official Corona testing centers in Berlin is available.

Thanks for replies! Got my second shot in March 2021 and booster today.

Yes please go to the pharmacy. The QR code from California is not quite the same (ours do not contain all the same information that the ones in the EU have, and they aren't recognized there) -- its very easy to go to a Germany pharmacy and get an EU one done. Any pharmacy can issue them just be polite and they do it. They will check your name against your passport, and then you can use the German certificate which is good for a year.

It is easiest if you both have your own phones, since (correct me if I'm wrong anyone) but each phone is connected with one code.

My friend and I were easily issued a German EU Covid passport (downloaded the covpass app ahead of time onto two phones) by showing the CDC card and our passports at a German pharmacy. I had my Moderna shots back in January and February (2 shots), and my friend had 3 Pfizer shots (March/April and then one booster week prior to going to Germany). The pharmacist was easily able to input them. Both Moderna and Pfizer are accepted in the EU.

With anything just be aware regulations could change at any moment prior to departure. My friend and I (just to be safe) also got a test in the USA prior to leaving in case anyone asked for it. As of today Nov 17th, however, vaccinated people do not have to quarantine. Don't expect a response from the German government once you do the "digital registration on entry"- that your documents were accepted or not, though it is required to do it. The most we got was a text message after we arrived saying "hi welcome to Germany" with a link to some regulations. They will check your vaccination proof (cards) at the border control when you depart your plane for your first city. Once you go to a pharmacy and get the EU code, that is what they will want to see., and sometimes your passport along with to make sure you aren't using a friend's phone (that only happened like 2x towards the end of our trip at certain more "touristy" places).

Given the rise in infection rates since last month, it might be smart to get extra health insurance, and just be precautious - more so than here in California. I live here in Los Angeles and while Germany tends to be more strict about mask wearing, it can really vary by location and more people congregate indoors since its freezing. So if you feel virus uncomfortable, get food to go or eat outside if able.

I’m going to Munich in a little over a week and I was wondering about the QR code. Since I am in FL we didn’t even get a QR code.

I do have a Swiss Vaccination Certification. I just sent them info and then I received the certification with a QR code that links the Swiss Covid Pass. Have it in an app in my phone. Hoping Germany has something similar.

I was in Berlin a few weeks ago with someone from the US. She was able to show her handwritten vaccine card everywhere to get in with no issues. I also had no issue using my NHS pass. Neither of us attempted to go to the pharmacy to get the EU pass.

jaeson1992, it's common for spouses — or other people who often go out together — to load multiple passes onto the same phone. The German CovPass app supports this. Incidentally, one person's QR code can be imported to the same European country's app on multiple phones, and also to different European countries' apps.

Sean, the Swiss QR code conforms to the Europe-only standard so you can scan it yourself in the German CovPass app to add it there. (You could also just display it within Germany using the Swiss Covid Cert app.) For Germany, it is worth downloading and setting up the Luca app, which speeds up restaurant and museum contact tracing registration.

efbraunreiter, it is a shame that the global standard QR code adopted by California (and several other US states) is not compatible with the Europe-only standard QR code. I can't really say who is to blame, but it's idiotic that European countries have opted to transcribe vaccination information for US visitors manually — from handwritten US vaccine certificates that cannot be authenticated. Sadly, no European country uses systems capable of reading the QR code issued by California. Our global standard QR code is backed by CAIR, our state's mandatory immunization registry database.