# What Information Goes Into a QR Code?

A vaccination certificate is a proof that a person has received the shot to protect them from an infectious disease such as COVID-19 or the flu. We have given below the type of information (mandatory and optional) that should be there in a QR code-based COVID-19 vaccination certificate, as specified by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

<table><thead><tr><th width="150">Requirement status for proof of vaccination</th><th width="183">DDCC label</th><th width="226">DIVOC label</th><th width="300">Description and definition</th><th width="172">Data type/format</th><th>Examples</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Name</td><td>recipientName</td><td>The full name of the vaccinated person.</td><td>String</td><td>John Tom Brown</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Date of birth</td><td>recipientDOB</td><td>The vaccinated person's date of birth (DOB) if known. If unknown, use the assigned DOB for administrative purposes.</td><td>Date</td><td>1998-01-05</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Unique identifier (primary identifier of the beneficiary)</td><td>preEnrollmentCode</td><td>Unique identifier for the vaccinated person, according to the policies applicable in each country. There can be more than one unique identifier used to link records (example: national ID, health ID, immunisation information system ID, and medical record ID). All the certificate IDs will be linked to the beneficiary's preEnrollmentCode.</td><td>UUID</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td></td><td>recipientIdentity</td><td>To be used only if there is a need to share/print an additional national ID. By default, it is set as 'null' in DIVOC's case. The above field covers this as well.</td><td>Alpha number</td><td>Driving license</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Sex</td><td>recipientGender</td><td>Documentation of a specific instance of sex information for the vaccinated person.</td><td>Male/female/other</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td></td><td>recipientMobileNumber</td><td></td><td>Numeric</td><td>18767778888</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Vaccine type or prophylaxis</td><td>Need to incorporate in the payload.</td><td>Generic description of the vaccine or vaccine sub-type, such as  COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, HPV vaccine.</td><td>Coding - ICD 11</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Vaccine brand</td><td>vaccinationName</td><td>The brand or trade name used to refer to the vaccine received.</td><td>String</td><td>Pfizer</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Vaccine manufacturer</td><td>vaccinationManufacturer</td><td>Name of the manufacturer of the vaccine received, such as Serum institute of India, or AstraZeneca. If the vaccine manufacturer is unknown, a market authorisation holder is needed.</td><td>String</td><td>ABC company</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Vaccine market authorisation holder</td><td></td><td>Name of the market authorisation holder of the vaccine received. If the market authorisation holder is unknown, a vaccine manufacturer is required. This is needed only if the manufacturer is not listed in the WHO EUL (Emergency Use Listing Procedure) list.</td><td>String</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Vaccine batch number</td><td>vaccinationBatch</td><td>Batch number or lot number of the vaccine.</td><td>String</td><td>4121Z104</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Date of vaccination</td><td>vaccinationDate</td><td>Date on which the vaccine was administered.</td><td>Date</td><td>2021-11-30</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Dose number</td><td>vaccinationDose</td><td>Vaccine dose number.</td><td>Quantity</td><td>1, 2</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Total doses</td><td>vaccinationTotalDoses</td><td>Total expected doses as defined by a member state's care plan and immunisation programme policies.</td><td>Quantity</td><td>For Pfizer and BioNTech, the total expected doses are two.</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Country of vaccination</td><td>facilityCountry</td><td>The country where a person was vaccinated.</td><td>Code</td><td>JAM = Jamaica</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Administering centre</td><td>facilityName</td><td>The name or identifier of the vaccination facility responsible for administering the vaccination.</td><td>String</td><td>Falmouth Health Centre</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Health worker identifier</td><td>vaccinatorName/ID</td><td>If the country does not have a national identifier, you can share the name of the vaccinator.</td><td>ID</td><td>National ID of the vaccinator</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Disease or agent targeted</td><td>Available as a certificate header and not as a data element in the current certificate API payload.</td><td>Name of the disease vaccinated against (such as COVID-19). We recommend that you can have it as a data element within the payload.</td><td>Coding</td><td>Certificate header: COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate.</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Due date of the next dose</td><td></td><td>Only implemented for India.</td><td>Date - YYYYMM/DD</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Certificate issuer</td><td>Issuer (available in the output)</td><td>The authority or authorised organisation that issued the vaccination certificate.</td><td>String</td><td>Ministry of Health &#x26; Wellness, Jamaica</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:orange;">Mandatory</mark></td><td>Health certificate identifier</td><td>Certificate ID (available in the output)</td><td>Unique identifier used to associate the vaccination status represented in a paper vaccination card.</td><td>ID</td><td>378855845</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Certificate valid from</td><td>vaccinationEffectiveStart</td><td>Date on which the certificate became valid. No health or clinical inferences should be made from this date.</td><td>Date</td><td>2021-11-30</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Certificate valid to</td><td>vaccinationEffectiveEnd</td><td>Last date on which the certificate is valid. No health or clinical inferences should be made from this date.</td><td>Date</td><td>2022-11-30</td></tr><tr><td>Optional</td><td>Certificate schema version</td><td></td><td>Only if schema versions are maintained.</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

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