The Corona cabinet(Germany) decided on Monday to introduce a digital vaccination pass for use on cell phones.
According to BILD information, the vaccination certificate should be available at the end of the second quarter of 2021. This means that vaccinated people could already enter z. B. at concerts or in restaurants. From January 2022, it should also be possible to save the vaccination data in the electronic patient record for mobile devices.
The head of the Federal Standing Committee on Vaccination, Thomas Mertens, is open to the project, which has long been debated. In the private law sector, “in cinemas, theaters, restaurants and on airlines, I can certainly imagine such evidence,” Mertens told BILD.
“It has already been introduced many times internationally, so we cannot prevent it.”
Boris warns ‘international stage’ will demand it
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson said there was “no question” that a lot of countries would be insisting on vaccine passports and that they will come for international travel
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that vaccine passports are currently under review in the UK to see if they are necessary to reopen parts of the country. However, the Prime Minister said that vaccine passports for international travel would be coming “whatever” as countries already have plans put in place for infectious diseases like yellow fever. Mr Johnson revealed his lockdown roadmap on Monday as the country is expected to have no legal lockdown restrictions by June 21 at the earliest.
Speaking to Sky News, the Prime Minister was asked whether anything he would exclude anything from a potential vaccination passport rollout.
He said: “When you look at the international side of things, the international travel, there’s no questions that’s where a lot of countries will be going.
“And they will be insisting on vaccine passports in the same way that people used to insist on evidence that you’ve been inoculated against yellow fever.
“So it’s going to come on the international stage whatever.”
Boris Johnson said the Government was looking at the ethical issues of introducing vaccination documents for UK citizens.
He explained Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove would be leading the review and would be discussing with scientists about the move.
Mr Johnson continued: “This is a novelty for our country, we’ve never thought in terms of having something to go into a pub or theatre.
“So they’re deep and complex issues we need to explore about what the role of government is in mandating all people to have such thing, or banning people from doing things.