It is reported that the European Union agreed on the 19th to complete the vaccination of approved Chinese Communist virus (Covid-19) vaccine and travelers from countries with low risk of Chinese Communist virus outbreak, re-opened the borders of the EU region has been closed for a year. However, there are still questions about the lack of standardization of the vaccine certificates in different countries, and there are still some unresolved issues and uncertain risks in the implementation.
According to the latest news from foreign media, yesterday (19) the ambassadors from 27 EU countries reached a consensus at a meeting and approved the “vaccine passport” system, which allows non-EU residents who have received the second dose of the Chinese Communist virus vaccine two weeks after the vaccination to receive the vaccine. The system allows non-EU residents to enter and leave some EU countries after two weeks of receiving the second dose of the CCP vaccine, without the need for testing or quarantine restrictions. Children who have not been vaccinated may also travel with their parents if they provide proof of a negative test.
According to comprehensive media reports, the CCP vaccine passport system will allow the reopening of EU borders that have been closed for more than one year to those who have received a complete vaccination against the CCP virus approved by the competent government authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO), including products from Pfizer, Modena, Joulsen, AZ and Sinopharm.
In addition, people from countries at low risk of a CCP virus outbreak can also travel to the EU as long as they can provide a negative test report; they are also allowed to enter and leave the EU. This list of safe countries based on epidemiological conditions will be announced on the 21st.
According to the report, the so-called low-risk countries refer to the Covid-19 infection rate of less than “100 cases per 100,000 people”, which is far below the EU average of more than 420 confirmed cases per 100,000 people. For example, there are currently 44 cases per 100,000 people in the UK, 35 cases per 100,000 people in the US, and 12 cases per 100,000 people in Taiwan (as of 5/20).
The newspaper noted that currently all EU countries except Ireland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are participating in this vaccine passport system program.
The Republic of China government does not plan to launch vaccine passports at this stage, but officials stressed that if the world recognizes vaccine passports in the future, Taiwan will also adopt them. Thailand, on the other hand, plans to gradually open up its tourism industry from July, allowing people who have been vaccinated to travel to the region without quarantine.
However, the current question from all walks of life is that although countries have introduced vaccine certificates for Chinese communist viruses, there is no unified standard, and there are still some unresolved problems in the specific implementation, such as which vaccines are recognized, how to let border personnel around the world identify vaccine passports from different regions, how to identify forged vaccine certificates, or the risk of spreading the virus even after vaccination, etc.
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