Europe Gears Up for Sweeping Digital Health Passport Coordination to Spur Travel
Photo Credit: EU member countries are getting closer to a decision on implementing a green vaccination passport in time for summer travel. Getting Images / John Walker
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After a year of impasse on unified Covid protocols and corridor agreements, European Union members are close to a consensus in implementing a green vaccination passport in an effort to save the summer vacation season.
EU governments must immediately begin technical work to ensure a COVID-19 vaccination certificate system can be introduced across the 27-member bloc in time for summer, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.
The EU executive aims to present its plans for a "digital green pass" on March 17 and to cooperate with international organisations to ensure that its system also works beyond the European Union.
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