Fontanka: Coronavirus patients reduced the validity period of QR codes to six months six months. This is reported by “Fontanka” with reference to the residents of the country who have complained about the problem.
As the newspaper notes, on November 8, when the “Gosuslug” increased the validity of vaccination certificates from six months to a year, along with them the QR codes of those who have had coronavirus have also been extended. However, on the morning of November 10, their expiration date was again rolled back to six months.
At the same time, the certificates of those residents of the country who had expired six months from the date of the illness were also reset.
On November 8, as a result problems on the portal, a message appeared that the validity period of QR codes was reduced from one year to six months. The ministry explained the incident with a technical failure. The head of the department, Maksut Shadayev, said that the failure on the portal affected 300 thousand out of 50 million users. A technical error occurred when the developers renewed certificates in accordance with a new order from the Ministry of Health. Shadayev added that the problem was fixed in four hours.