Denmark has decided to issue digital passports to people vaccinated against COVID-19 to ease travel and living restrictions.
At a press conference on the 3rd, Denmark’s Finance Minister Morten Vödskopf said at a press conference that he would commercialize a digital corona passport within three to four months so that it can be used when traveling for business trips, the Associated Press reported.
Denmark has decided to issue not only a documented passport showing that vaccination has been completed, but also an e-passport so that it can be downloaded onto a smartphone.
The Danish government plans to make the relevant facts available to those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 through the Ministry of Health website later this month.
Denmark’s plan to commercialize Corona 19 digital passports was jointly discussed by the government and companies.
Earlier in Europe, the island nation of Iceland decided to issue a similar corona19 vaccine certificate to its own citizens.
Iceland is not a member of the European Union (EU) like Denmark, but it is a member of the Schengen Agreement, which regulates European cross-border free zones.
Corona 19 passports, such as those announced by Denmark or Iceland, are not internationally accepted, and there are disagreements among major EU member states.
Greece, a tourist country, actively favors the introduction of a vaccine passport in order to overcome the economic crisis, but France and Germany, the EU’s’two-headed wagons’, do not have many vaccinations yet and are likely to spread the virus even after vaccinations have been vaccinated It is said that it is premature.
The executive committee, which is the EU’s executive branch, is also in the position that at this time, the vaccine passport can only be used for medical purposes, such as for tracking side effects of the vaccine.
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