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EU Digital COVID Certificate now available for persons with no Finnish personal identity code

Notice Written on 18.9.2021 All notices

Persons with no Finnish personal identity code can now obtain the EU Digital COVID Certificate as a printout from the healthcare service. It is not possible to get the certificate from My Kanta Pages without a personal identity code.

Persons who have a Finnish personal identity code and a means of identification, such as Finnish online banking codes, can obtain the EU Digital COVID Certificate directly from My Kanta Pages. You do not have to be a Finnish citizen in order to use My Kanta Pages.

Healthcare service can print out a COVID certificate

The EU Digital COVID Certificate can now be printed in the healthcare service for persons who do not have a Finnish personal identity code, but who have received the COVID-19 vaccination or who have had a COVID-19 test in Finland. The certificate printed by the healthcare service is the same as the EU Digital COVID Certificate that can be printed from My Kanta Pages.

Overseas citizens who are, for example, working in Finland for an overseas company or who are studying in Finland, may not have a Finnish personal identity code.

Persons with no Finnish personal identity code will be issued with a temporary identification code for the patient data system. The data recorded for a temporary identification code will also be entered in Kanta. Only the healthcare unit that has recorded the data can print out the EU Digital COVID Certificate for a person who has a temporary identification code. 

Further information from local healthcare organisations

Currently, some healthcare organisations cannot yet print out the EU Digital COVID Certificate. For this reason, the healthcare organisations will provide further local guidelines on how persons with no Finnish personal identity code can obtain a printed EU Digital COVID Certificate. The person must contact the healthcare organisation that administered the vaccine or provided the COVID-19 test for more detailed instructions.

Further information

Contacts by the media:

  • Mari Holmroos, Specialist of Kela’s Kanta Services, firstname.lastname@kela.fi
  • For media enquiries to Kela’s Communications Unit, please call +358 20 634 7745 Monday to Friday between 9am and 4pm, viestinta@kela.fi

Citizens’ questions about COVID certificates:

General advice:

  • My Kanta Pages customer service: asiakaspalvelu@kanta.fi

Please note: It is not possible to check or edit personal health data in the customer service of My Kanta Pages. In these situations, please contact the healthcare unit that attended to your care.

Printing a COVID certificate, errors or omissions in the COVID certificate:

  • Healthcare service: the organisation where you were vaccinated or tested for COVID-19