How to keep your green pass status on Abu Dhabi’s Alhosn app

Starting today, June 15, Abu Dhabi’s new safety protocols have officially gone into effect, requiring green passes on Abu Dhabi’s Alhosn app to go to malls, gyms, hotels, parks, beaches, pools, cinemas, supermarkets, restaurants, museums and cafes.

The app keeps track of people’s testing and vaccination status, and if you’re all up to date on both, you’ll keep your green status, allowing full freedom of movement.

Let’s explain how to keep your green status:

1. Green status comes automatically from a negative PCR test or 28 days after you’ve received your second dose of a COVID vaccine.

2. If you’re fully vaccinated, you get automatic green status after 28 days, for a period of 30 days.

3. After that, you’ll need a negative PCR test result every 30 days to renew your status.

4. If you’ve had both doses but are under 28 days since the second dose, a negative PCR test will give you green status for 14 days.

5. If you have had one dose and are waiting for your second dose, a negative PCR test will give you green status for seven days.

6. If you have a vaccine exemption certificate (usually because you are medically unable to take the vaccine, check with your doctor!), you will also need to test negative every seven days to keep your green status.

7. If you are unvaccinated, or you didn’t get your second dose within a period of 48 days, you will need to have a negative PCR test every three days to keep your green status.

Green status can change in one of three ways, grey status, amber status, or red status.

Grey status means your validity has run out, and you’ll need to go get a negative PCR test to renew.

Red status means you’ve tested positive for COVID-19. Seek advice from a health care authority.

Amber status means you need to be tested or retested due to possible exposure to COVID-19.

Hope that makes this a bit less confusing as we all get used to this new system designed to keep us all safe.

Stay well, everyone!