BHOPAL: Think twice before sharing your vaccination certificate on social media. The Central government has advised people to not to do share their Covid vaccine certificate citing cyber threats. In the absence of propoer guidelines, school and college students who had shared the certificates of their getting vaccinated against Covid, are now busy searching and deleating any such posts they had shared with their social media friends.
Vaccination has been made mandatory for college students now. Students who did not bothered to get a copy of the certificate are now rushing in to get one.
Some of the students who had proudly shared it on social media platforms with their friends are now worried lot. “I did not know that sharing your own vaccination certificate on social media will be ever banned. I have removed it now,” said a student without quoting her name.
Many students say they shared the certificate only out of need. “One of my friends wanted to know what kind of certificate one gets after getting a vaccine shot. I simply shared it with them. Later, I had to struggle to delete it when my grandparents told me about the new rule,” said another student.
Many students said they had to share the Covid vaccination certificate out of compulsion. “My college authorities had asked about it. I never knew that the government has ordered people not to share it on social media,” said a student with a large number of followers on a social media platform.
“Beware of sharing vaccination certificate on social media,” the Central government has said in a recent order. The instructions further said that Covid-19 vaccination certificate contains your vital data and details that may be misused cyber fraudsters.
