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Germany, at least, doesn't have a central database on vaccinations and just relies on pharmacy staff to validate the yellow paper Vaccination Pass and government IDs.

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In such a case any pharmacist can generate a factious certificate. I don't expect them to risk their licence with false data entry but given a big country and a sufficient number of disgruntled, nearly retired professionals...

Doesn't have to be retired professionals. There have been cases in Germany where employees of pharmacies fake these certificates [0]. The link talks about hundreds of faked certificates from a single pharmacy.

[0] https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/hunderte-digitale-impfp... (German)

You'd be surprised what people can do. Not in Germany, but in Cyprus which is issuing EU certificates with the same as well there is an active case of a doctor who allegedly was adding people to the system without actually vaccinating them because they were against vaccination but wanted to get a pass issued. He would then throw away the dose after entering the batch number in the system. The case broke out when one of the fake pass holders got sick and had to be intubated, at which point he told the doctors about the scum he was involved in.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/08/14/coronavirus-new-remand-fo...

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