Biden’s Executive Order Mandates Using COVID-19 Vaccination Status As Travel Credential

The regulation directs the government "to assess the feasibility of linking COVID-19 vaccination to International Certificates of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP) and producing electronic versions of ICVPs." Biden's new directive also mandates travelers to the United States to get tested before departure and wearing masks in airports and other modes of public transportation such as trains, ferries, intercity bus services and aircraft..

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"As states, countries, and governments come to grips with new and evolving viruses and diseases, having a safe, secure, accessible, and coordinated record of immunizations appears to make sense."

A record of immunization has other benefits besides foreign travel. "It will help to ensure accuracy of dates for any future booster vaccinations or the ability to notify vaccine recipients of any discovered negative effects over decades,"

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“People have to understand that a corona passport is not just for vaccine certification. It should also include negative test results and note if you have immunity because you’ve had the virus and recovered.”

Bødskov was bullish about the prospects for such a system. “We are taking the first steps,” he said, so that “in three to four months, a digital corona passport will be ready for use for things like business trips.”

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“It’s about trying to digitize a process that happens now and make it into something that allows for more harmony and ease, making it easier for people to travel between countries without having to pull out different papers for different countries and different documents at different checkpoints,”

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"We've tried many different solutions to properly and safely reopen hospitality, sport venues and other things that are very important, not just for our economy, but also for mental wellbeing of people," said Ryan Wain, an advisor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a British think tank.

"And really, the only way that we can properly get those open is knowing that people entering those venues don't have COVID".

Denmark to introduce digital coronavirus passports

"It will be the extra passport that you will be able to have on your mobile phone, which documents that you have been vaccinated. It is about us as a country taking advantage of the technological advantages we have. We can be among the first in the world to have it and can show it to the rest of the world."