A new digital certificate will soon be available for Europeans who want to travel. It should provide a way to track Covid-19 vaccinations and tests. The holders of the passports will be able to cross the borders around Europe and help the economy and tourism recover.
The new passport will allow travel within the European Union. It will state if the holder has been vaccinated or got a negative Covid-19 test recently. Other information it will have includes the recovery process of those who have contracted the virus. The current plan is to develop the necessary infrastructure by summer.
How will it work? Every hospital, testing center, and other health institutions will be assigned a unique digital signature. The system will allow for all the signatures to be verified everywhere in the EU.
All EU states will accept the new certificate and the holders will be exempted from the travel restrictions.
What about privacy issues? “It will respect data protection, security, and privacy,” said European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. “The Digital Green Pass should facilitate Europeans’ lives. The aim is to gradually enable them to move safely in the European Union or abroad—for work or tourism.”
