Where to save your COVID vaccination certificate for easy access

7/9/2021 6 Comments

Where to save your COVID vaccination certificate for easy access

In a Zoom with friends recently, discussion turned to COVID Vaccinations and what to do with the certificate that you receive once you are fully vaccinated.

The COVID-19 digital certificate is available from the Medicare Express Plus app here in Australia. If you haven't already done so, this app is well worth downloading to any mobile device. Not only does it show your COVID certificate (and other vaccinations), but it also allows you to submit Medicare claims.

Alternatively, you can access the certificate via your web browser - by signing in to your myGov account and then accessing your Medicare service from there.

(We won't go into how to set up myGov and link Medicare in this article - but let us know in the comments if this is something you would like to see covered in a future article.)

So once you find your COVID certificate, what can you do with it, and how can you have it readily available when you need it. There are a few options.

You can download the PDF version of the certificate and store it somewhere on your mobile device or computer.

Ideally you will want to have it available on your mobile device, just in case you need to present it in future when we are finally allowed out of lockdown.

My place for storing things like that is Evernote, where I have a Notebook for Health notes and documents. Another place you could store it - if you are on an iPad/iPhone/Mac - is in your Notes.

But you don't actually have to save the PDF version of the certificate.

You can access the certificate via the Medicare Express Plus app when you are on the go. And you can ensure that you have access to it even if you are not connected to the internet, or not currently signed in to the app. This makes it much quicker to get to.

When viewing the certificate, the app allows you to choose to Save offline for quick access in future. It is then available via an Offline Items option that you see at the bottom of the initial screen when you open the Medicare Express Plus app.

If you are on an iPhone, the Add to Apple Wallet option is also available for your digital COVID certificate.

For those of you wanting to learn more about the options for accessing saving your digital COVID certificate, here is a good article published this week:

How do you get your COVID-19 vaccine certificate on your phone? It's surprisingly simple.

6 Comments

Margaret Ridland

12/9/2021 10:27:35 pm

Yeah - no.
I downloaded the app (Express Plus Medicare is the term) but you have to sign in with MyGov details and link the Medicare app to the MyGov app. I think everyone has heard horror stories about the MyGov and the MyGovID apps and my experience was so horrific that I decided to abandon the whole thing. My medical practice printed out my vaccination history and for now I just keep that in my actual wallet. I assume that the MyGov/MyGovID will improve over time. Right now they are struggling to achieve a 1.5 star rating, and the reviews are very telling.

Sue

13/9/2021 08:07:37 am

Thanks Lynette it worked brilliantly
I have already got my gov set up so no hassle

Sylvia Stuart

13/9/2021 12:22:19 pm

worked like magic when you have a mygov account. Yippee!

Wilma Grogan

15/9/2021 08:52:28 am

Did it all on my Ipad(with help)But am now unable to get the medicare app on my phone!?Have the certificate on my Ipad,printed it out and willcarry it! but would love it on my phone!

Allan Rutherford

11/10/2021 08:53:47 pm

Something interesting about off-line access to the digital COVID certificate using the Medicare Express app. When I tried to access the Medicare Express app with data and WiFi turned off I just got the blue circle. When I exited the app, I also noted that if you wait a minute or so the app automatically closes itself, and started it again it went straight to the app opening screen where I was able to select Offline Items and then the COVID-19 digital certificate.

Matt

12/10/2021 07:58:41 am

Great. Offline mode works once app is forces close or waiting 10 minutes after initial save to offline mode. Once this is done , you can also save pdf to files or email.

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