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COVID Certificate: Why Is It Important?

COVID Certificate: Why Is It Important?

Getting a vaccination and its certificate as proof would eventually help you carry out your regular daily routines. But there is a second side to the coin. That is morality!


COVID certificates are now important

 Covid-vaccination certificates are essential that you get them soon due to the various sanctions you might face. Sanctions that you might be facing have not been able to board domestic and international flights since October 1, 2021, as per the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulations.

 It could cause serious concern for frequent travellers who visit from home to their offices located in different cities weekly. However, it is the right thing to do right now.

 Now health departments have been seeking to make vaccination certificates mandatory to use banking services. However, National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has already announced that getting vaccines has been mandatory for access to various services.

How to get the COVID certificate 

Certificates are available online at National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), and you can download them digitally to carry them wherever you like. You can easily download it on your cell phone and show it easily where needed.

You might delay your pay 

Moreover, it was just a random talk that your sim could get blocked if you did not get a vaccine. However, this is yet to be decided. Moreover, many private organisations had withheld the salary of respective employees, failing to get vaccinated at a prescribed time. The Sindh government did implement withholding of pay of various employees, failing to get themselves inoculated on time.

Being vaccinated is more important than getting a certificate

Therefore, with all the apparent reasons getting a vaccination and its certificate as proof would eventually help you carry out your regular daily routines. But there is a second side to the coin. That is morality!

 It is high time to get vaccinated on various moral grounds. Those who have had been against vaccines and built conspiracy theories later were the COVID-positive with miserable symptoms. Hence, it is not confined to visible signs. Many cases are asymptomatic without any dreadful symptoms. While roaming on the streets or at public places without masks, being vaccinated will be fine, as there is no visible symptom that is the most selfish attitude by all standards.

Take care of people around you

 Regardless of whether you have the signs or no symptoms, you can’t be so sure about being COVID-positive, and during that process, you infect so many people who came in contact with you. Least, if you are not bothered about yourself, be considerate of the people around you, especially those who have chronic diseases.

Tazmeen Javed
Tazmeen Javed

The author is contributing writer at Dental News Pakistan and can be reached at tazmeenlh1472@gmail.com