Date of search

20 April 2022

Certificate adoption

Finland has issued the COVID-19 certificates for those who have already vaccinated, recovered from COVID-19 or had the negative test result.

Instrument type

Both immunity and vaccination based

Certificate name

COVID-19 certificate

Timeline to launch

Already in use

Certificate details

COVID-19 certificates have 3 types of the following certificate:

• Vaccination certificate
• Recovery certificate
• Test certificate

You can find the further information via this link.

https://stm.fi/en/vaccination-certificate

Certificate format

Both digital and paper format

Entry protocol

For general measure

• Travellers from EU/Schengen countries as well as green list countries or territories (please see the remark section) are not required to show any COVID-19 certificates before entering Finland.

For vaccinated travellers

• Vaccinated travellers from non-EU/Schengen countries or non-green list countries/territories are required to show the vaccination certificate that verifies vaccination is at least 7 days since the last dosage received.
• Also, travellers with only one dose received after recovering from COVID-19 are allowed to enter Finland if they can show the vaccination certificate.

For recovered travellers

• Recovered travellers are allowed to enter Finland with a recovery certificate from the EU Digital COVID Certificate system.

For other measures

• Travellers aged under 16 are exempted from any COVID-19 certificate requirements as well as some groups for essential reasons that can be found via this link. https://raja.fi/en/guidelines-for-border-traffic-during-pandemic

Vaccine authorised to be used in the country

• Novavax
• Pfizer BioNTech / Comirnaty
• Moderna (Spikevax)
• AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria)
• Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)

Vaccine accepted for inbound travellers

• Pfizer BioNTech / Comirnaty
• Moderna (Spikevax)
• AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria)
• Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)
• Sinopharm
• Covishield
• Sinovac
• COVAXIN
• Novavax / Covavax

Border status

Open

Remarks

EU, Schengen and related countries:

• Austria, Andorra
• Belgium, Bulgaria
• The Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland, France
• Germany, Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland, Italy, Ireland
• Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg
• Malta, Monaco
• The Netherlands, Norway
• Poland, Portugal
• Romania
• Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, San Marino
• Vatican

Green list countries or territories:

• Bahrain
• Colombia, Chile
• Hongkong
• Indonesia
• Kuwait
• Macao
• New Zealand
• Peru
• Qatar
• Rwanda
• Saudi Arabia, South Korea
• Taiwan
• United Arab Emirates, Uruguay

Reference

(1)https://thl.fi/en/web/thlfi-en

(2)https://raja.fi/en/guidelines-for-border-traffic-during-pandemic

(3)https://stm.fi/en/vaccination-certificate

(4)https://www.kanta.fi/en/covid-19-certificate

(5)https://thl.fi/en/web/infectious-diseases-and-vaccinations/what-s-new/coronavirus-covid-19-latest-updates/travel-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic/which-vaccines-are-accepted-at-the-points-of-entry-into-the-country-

(6)https://covid19.trackvaccines.org/country/finland/