COVID RECOVERY CERTIFICATE. The Covid-19 recovery certificate is one of the possibilities to obtain a valid vaccination pass. While its deadline will be reduced from February 15, how to obtain it and how long is it valid? The Internet user answers your questions.
[Mis à jour le 11 février 2022, à 13h15] The rules will change from Tuesday, February 15. If you are not vaccinated, you will need to have been infected with Covid-19 less than four months ago to continue to benefit from your vaccination pass – compared to six until then. Beyond these four months (and only if you tested positive more than eleven days ago), you will need to be injected with a booster dose, announced on January 27, the Ministry of Health and Solidarities. Indeed, the Ministry of Health and Solidarity considers that the recovery certificate is “one of the proofs which allows you to have a valid vaccination pass”. This certificate allows people who were infected with the coronavirus more than 11 days ago – but less than 4 months from February 15, therefore – to benefit from the privilege of the vaccination pass and to access in particular to the places of leisure to which the QR code gives access. Why was such a certificate implemented? Because, as the national and international scientific and health authorities consider it, this certificate is part of the rule of “one infection = one injection”, both in the context of the primo-vaccination than in that of the booster dose.
If you are one of the hundreds of thousands of French people who have been, during this fifth wave in particular (15.6% of the population received a positive test for coronavirus since January 1, 2022), infected with the coronavirus, so you probably could not take your vaccine or your booster dose, if you had planned. How to attest to your contamination and obtain a recovery certificate? Nothing could be simpler: just ask the laboratory (or healthcare professional) who carried out your positive test to give you a supporting document. If unable to do this, the certificate is accessible from the SI-DEP platform, using the identifiers transmitted during the test. The certificate is valid in its paper or digital format; you must then scan the QR code present on the certificate to integrate it into the TousAntiCovid application.
Is the Covid-19 recovery certificate included in the vaccination pass?
The bill amended and validated by the National Assembly and the Senate provides for the maintenance of the recovery certificate as a means of obtaining your vaccination pass, as it was for the health pass. “The recovery certificate may continue to replace the proof of vaccination status”, indicated the text of the bill published on December 30, 2021, mentioning it as an “adaptation provided for by decree”. This point was confirmed by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran in response to questions from deputies on this same bill: “I confirm that the recovery certificate issued to people who have been infected with Covid and are not yet eligible vaccination – will give access to the vaccination pass, under the same conditions as it gave access to the health pass”.
What is a Covid-19 recovery certificate?
The Covid-19 recovery certificate consists of a positive Covid-19 test for more than 11 days and less than 4 months. These deadlines (more than 11 days, less than 4 months) make it possible to certify that a person has recovered from their Covid-19 infection, therefore that they have antibodies against the virus. Thus, from February 15, the validity period of the certificate of recovery after a Covid-19 infection will be reduced from six months to four months, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday January 27. Positive screening must imperatively be an RT-PCR or antigen test. Self-tests and serological tests are not accepted. It is the positive result of this test that you must present to obtain your health pass and, soon, the vaccination pass if the bill is adopted.
To get it, just go to the SI-DEP platform (National Covid-19 population screening information system). This is what gives access to the results of your tests. All you have to do is enter the identifiers transmitted during your test. If you have misplaced them, be aware that you can also connect using your “France Connect” identifiers, in particular those you use for your Ameli Social Security account or on the tax website. The results certificates can then be printed, a QR Code being present on the page. They can also be imported into the TousAntiCovid app to allow you to obtain your digital health pass directly.
Can I retrieve the recovery certificate on Améli?
No, only the SI-DEP platform makes it possible to recover the results of the tests, positive or negative, and therefore in the case of a positive test, its proof serving as a certificate of recovery. The identifiers to access SI-DEP are provided during your test but you can also use your Ameli identifiers via France Connect, for the tax site…
The document presenting your positive test for Covid-19 (dated more than 11 days and less than 4 months to be eligible for the health pass) includes a QR Code. It is this QR Code that you just have to scan in the Tous AntiCovid application in the “Tous AntiCovid Carnet” section.
How long is the Covid-19 recovery certificate valid?
The certificate of recovery is valid for a period of four months after the positive test. The results are stored for 4 months on the SI-DEP platform in the event of a positive test.
Can I be allowed to travel with a certificate of reinstatement?
Yes, but the conditions are more restrictive than for the health pass valid for activities in France (access to restaurants, cinemas, trains, etc.). the European health pass (which can be found under the mention “border health pass” in the TousAntiCovid app) admits the certificate of recovery but only via a positive PCR test. The antigen test is not authorized, contrary to what is allowed for the French health pass called “for activities”.