I arrived in Germany on Thursday and here’s my experience. I had to show my CDC card at my home airport (MSY) while checking in. Then had to show it to the gate agent at IAD before boarding my flight to ZRH. I have not had to show it to anyone since IAD. I picked up my rental car at ZRH and drove to my friend’s house in Germany. I’ve been to shops, grocery stores and restaurants and everything has been like normal, with the exception of seeing everyone wearing masks. Most masks I’ve seen are the typical blue paper masks, followed by the FFP2 (duckbill) masks and then cloth masks. Masks are required when entering buildings. Masks are not required outside. At restaurants, they want one person at the table to fill out a contact tracing form. I’m not going to get the App that several have mentioned here. So far, everything for me has been quite easy and stress free.

Did you try requesting for the EU Green cert from a pharmacy?

Nope and I’m not going to worry about it. I have not seen it requested of my friends, or, for that matter, of anyone.

edit: just be courteous and follow the rules about wearing a mask inside. Further disclosure is that I’m not in a big city, or staying at a hotel. I’m in small towns and villages visiting friends.

The only times I used it was to visit a friend in the hospital. The requirement was a current negative Covid test or proof of vaccination. The digital certificate worked fine; for “scientific” reasons I wanted to also try my CDC card, but ended up not having a chance due to a canceled visit.

Otherwise, in daily life (shopping, dining) I didn’t need it. Just wore my mask and occasionally filled out a piece of paper to enable contact tracing.

This could obviously change as the Covid situation changes. For example, Berlin’s museums currently don’t require a current negative Covid test.

”All Staatliche Museen zu Berlin venues are reopened to the public. Visits are only permitted with an medical mask or FFP2 face mask and a time-slot ticket purchased online: www.smb.museum/tickets. For the time being at least, visitors are no longer required to present a negative COVID-19 test result to enter the museum.”

Today I asked some of my German friends if they have ever had to show any proof of vaccination for anything or to anyone and the answer was “no”. ( notwithstanding notquiteaff’s hospital visit)

Not surprising, at the moment. But it’s been just a few months since you needed a negative Covid test or proof of vaccination for, say, a barbershop visit in many (all?) parts of the country. Could come back, but hopefully not. I currently plan at least two more trips to Europe this year, so for me having the digital cert is potentially useful again (but hopefully not needed).

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ed-2021-05-04/

In daily life in Germany you don't really need the certificate. I never showed it to someone so far. Same when I now traveled by car to Italy, no one asked for a vaccination certificate. Different at airports of course.

That's right, until beginning of June it was needed to enter shops etc

There will be no more digital certificate for COVPASS from today until further notice.

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I am currently in Hamburg at the moment. Luca is used most everywhere from department stores to restaurants. If you want to dine inside (including starbucks) you must be vaccinated/test. So far the few places that have required it has accepted a scanned version of my CDC card on my iPhone.

Just another data point: I was able to get a CovPass certificate at the pharmacy in Hamburg Hbf a few days ago based on my CDC card. The pharmacist did ask how long I’m staying in Germany, and told me that they wouldn’t give one if I’m leaving the country soon; an answer of a couple of months sufficed.

Sanity check... or more-so, is what I am asking possible?

Assuming the event takes place, I am travelling to Germany at the end of September for the Berlin Marathon. The race organizer is requiring an electronic record of vaccination, verified through Luca, Corona-Warn, or CovPass apps. The organizer will not accept the paper CDC vaccination record. Does anyone know if it is possible to verify my US vaccination records through one of these apps ahead of time, while I am here in the US? Or is verification through a local German pharmacy the only available avenue? I want to avoid a situation where I am racing to a pharmacy upon landing in Germany to get this taken care of.

Thanks in advance.

It is not possible to do this from remote. It can only be done physically in Germany.

fransknorge thanks for the quick reply! It looks like I will need to rely upon a negative COVID test (the race organizer is offering this as a service at the pre-race expo) to participate. It is too risky for me to try to figure it out on the day I land.

Follow-up question, it seems that spectators will also be required to verify their vaccination/testing records through Luca/CovPass/Corona-Warn in order to access certain portions of the marathon course. I believe I caught some discussion in this thread that pharmacies are less than willing to provide verification of US records for tourists, if their stay in the country will only be brief. Given that we will only be in Germany for 5 days, do you know if this will present a problem for them? Will pharmacies refuse to process these "short stay" tourist requests?

I think, and I can't blame them, my friends are looking to avoid the expense of a test if all that it gets them is the opportunity to see me run past them for 5 seconds.

Any antigen test you take in Germany will give you the same certificate. So no worries.