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The certificate expires after 1 hour, so this is still an online process.

They dont expire after 1 hour - where did you hear that?

I think there is a green pass for unvaccinated individuals that allows an antigen test to be used. Those tests are only valid for a few hours, varying by jurisdiction. (I think most US states accept these for 6 hours)

The example in the article seems to show a 1hr expiration but its probably just fake data for the sake of the article.

The example in the article seems to expire after 48 hours:

4: 1624458597, # QR code expiry 6: 1624285797} # QR code generated

1624458597 - 1624285797 = 172800 = 48 * 60 * 60

(I would have thought they could afford to be a bit more generous than that. If they were valid for a few weeks then it would be practicable to print them out.)

The example is fictional.

To add a real datapoint: the QR expiry date for the certificate of my second shot is set to 360 days after I received the shot.

At least the Swiss version has no expiration date.

That said, the government communicated that it's currently valid for 6 month after the second jab.

This is because the length of effectiveness of the vaccination is not reliably known.

I don't know how it works with certificates, which are issued based on a negative test.

correcting myself: At least the digital version does have an expiration date six month after the second jab.

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