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EU is reportedly planning to roll out a “vaccine passport” to facilitate personnel exchanges within the bloc, with a proposal stating that only European Medicines Agency (EMA)-approved vaccines will be valid for travel in EU.
The EMA has approved four vaccines from UK and US developers. However, with Chinese vaccines, which have been donated to nearly 70 and exported to 43 countries, currently not included in the list, the efficiency of the forthcoming so-called “vaccine passport” of EU may be limited.
The EU has been weighing the measure of rolling out such a “green pass” travel certificate for quite a while, with higher support from countries whose economies relying on tourism revenues, such as Greece, Spain…