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The Department of Public Security of Hanoi has launched an action month from July 25 to August 25 to issue chip-based ID cards to remaining eligible citizens in the city.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS)’s digital transformation efforts have helped provide chip-based ID cards for health insurance at more than 4,000 medical facilities across the country.

People will be able to withdraw cash from ATMs by scanning their chip-based ID cards under a new pilot service provided by the Ministry of Public Security. ​

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has worked with the Ministry of Public Security to synchronise the national data on insurance with the population data and build technical solutions to enable people to search for their health insurance information through their chip-based citizen identity cards.

Spectators need to show only their chip-based ID cards besides their tickets when coming to watch the Vietnam-Saudi Arabia match at My Dinh Stadium on November 16, according to the Police Department for Administrative Management of Social Order.

Driver's license, social insurance, and COVID-19 vaccination certificate are among many documents to be incorporated into the new chip-based ID cards, the Ministry of Public Security’s police department for administrative management of social order has said.

The national population data centre and the system for making, granting, and managing citizen identity cards made debut on June 22, and they will officially come into operation on July 1.

The Departments of Public Security in 63 provinces and cities had collected dossiers of making chip-based ID cards of 33.9 million Vietnamese citizens as of April 27, equal to 67.8 percent of the goal of 50 million cards to be issued before July 1.

The Ministry of Public Security plans to have issued chip-based ID cards to 50 million citizens by July 1 this year.