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Coronavirus: WHO says âvaccine passportsâ for travel has ethical considerations due to inequality
WATCH ABOVE: WHO says vaccine passports for travel have ethical considerations due to inequality. â Mar 8, 2021
The European Unionâs executive will propose next week that new
COVID-19
certificates combine information on vaccination, recovery from the sickness and test results to avoid discrimination between citizens, a senior official said.
Southern EU countries reliant on tourism hope such âpassportsâ would help unlock its summer season this year but ran into opposition from Germany, France and Belgium stressing that inoculation is neither obligatory nor available to all.
âWe are working on a certificate â itâs not a passport â but itâs not only about vaccination. It about recovery for the people who had sickness, vaccination or test,â European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said on Thursday.
5:33
Will you need a vaccine passport?
âWe donât have mandatory vaccine so itâs possible to refuse to be vaccinated. And we donât have for the moment the capacity to organize vaccination for all the people who want to be vaccinated. We donât want to have any discrimination.â
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The EUâs slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has been widely criticised, with only about 5% of people inoculated so far and the blocâs target of inoculating 70% of its adult population by the end of the summer seen to be increasingly in question.
But, keen to revive economic growth mauled by the pandemic, the blocâs 27 national leaders agreed last month to prepare joint rules for such COVID-19 âgreen certificatesâ before the summer.
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The European Unionâs executive will propose next week that new [COVID-19](https://globalnews.ca/tag/coronavirus/) certificates combine information on vaccination, recovery from the sickness and test results to avoid discrimination between citizens, a senior official said.

Southern EU countries reliant on tourism hope such âpassportsâ would help unlock its summer season this year but ran into opposition from Germany, France and Belgium stressing that inoculation is neither obligatory nor available to all.
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âWe are working on a certificate â itâs not a passport â but itâs not only about vaccination. It about recovery for the people who had sickness, vaccination or test,â European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said on Thursday.
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But, keen to revive economic growth mauled by the pandemic, the blocâs 27 national leaders agreed last month to prepare joint rules for such COVID-19 âgreen certificatesâ before the summer.
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WATCH ABOVE: WHO says vaccine passports for travel have ethical considerations due to inequality. â Mar 8, 2021
The European Unionâs executive will propose next week that new [COVID-19](https://globalnews.ca/tag/coronavirus/) certificates combine information on vaccination, recovery from the sickness and test results to avoid discrimination between citizens, a senior official said.

Southern EU countries reliant on tourism hope such âpassportsâ would help unlock its summer season this year but ran into opposition from Germany, France and Belgium stressing that inoculation is neither obligatory nor available to all.
âWe are working on a certificate â itâs not a passport â but itâs not only about vaccination. It about recovery for the people who had sickness, vaccination or test,â European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said on Thursday.
![Click to play video: 'Will you need a vaccine passport?']() 5:33 Will you need a vaccine passport?
âWe donât have mandatory vaccine so itâs possible to refuse to be vaccinated. And we donât have for the moment the capacity to organize vaccination for all the people who want to be vaccinated. We donât want to have any discrimination.â
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But, keen to revive economic growth mauled by the pandemic, the blocâs 27 national leaders agreed last month to prepare joint rules for such COVID-19 âgreen certificatesâ before the summer.

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