When will countries recognize the new crown vaccine received by other countries? What difficulties hinder this? Can a digital vaccination passport solve the problem?
Let us imagine this situation: you are in a country, you are vaccinated against the new crown, you want to travel to another country, but it does not recognize your vaccine, what would you do?
According to a report by Bloomberg, as the global vaccination work intensifies, the type of vaccine you get will determine which countries you can enter and work in.
This may pose a threat to the recovery of the travel industry and hinder the country’s economic recovery process.
For example, there are 6 new crown vaccines approved in China. They are vaccines from Anhui Zhifeilongkoma, Kangsino, Minhai Biological, Sinopharm, and Kexing.
Question: What about a person from the United States who has received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine? Will he be considered a vaccinated group?
On the other hand, so far, the United States has approved 3 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech, Modena, and Johnson & Johnson. If a person comes from China and is vaccinated with Sinopharm, or from the UK and is vaccinated with AstraZeneca, he is in What will the United States do?
These examples are for illustration only, and the situation varies from country to country.
The covid19 trackvaccines website provides a map showing vaccines approved by countries around the world.
When will countries recognize the new crown vaccine vaccinated by other countries?
The answer is not clear, so for the millions of people in the world who cannot choose which vaccine to get, the risk of not being able to travel to a certain country due to not being vaccinated with a recognized vaccine exists and poses a problem.
Bloomberg News quoted Nicholas Thomas, an assistant professor of health and safety at City University of Hong Kong, as saying, “The global division based on vaccination will only intensify and sustain the economic and political impact of the epidemic. The world will face a classification based on vaccine nationality rather than medical necessity. The risks of islands.”
Understanding the problem of vaccines is crucial for countries that rely on tourism, because since the pandemic began, the global tourism industry worth $9 trillion has almost been paralyzed.
It is not yet clear what procedures will be adopted, but countries around the world have begun to take action, and the issuance of vaccine passports may be an important step towards this goal.
What are the difficulties that prevent the country from identifying other vaccines?
- The conditions for medical approval by the health authorities of each country are different.
- There may be political or two-way transactions. For example, one country may approve the vaccine of another country as a condition for the latter to approve its vaccine.
Can the digital vaccination passport (vaccine passport) solve the problem?
Only a vaccine passport is not enough. Although the passport shows the type of vaccine the person has received, it does not mean that the country he will travel to recognize the vaccine.
(Al Jazeera)European measures
According to Agence France-Presse, European Commissioner Didier Reindes announced to the European Parliament on Tuesday that more than 1 million people in Europe have obtained digital vaccine passports, which is expected to facilitate the movement of passport holders within the EU this summer.
A digital vaccine passport can prove one of the following three things: the holder has been vaccinated with a new crown vaccine, or has undergone laboratory tests to prove that he is not infected with the new crown virus, or he has been infected with the new crown virus at least 180 days ago, currently It is still resistant and has already begun to be released. Reendez said that these certificates have been issued in nine European countries. They are Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Poland, Lithuania and Spain.
According to a report by Deutsche Welle, EU residents holding vaccine passports are exempted from quarantine while travelling in Europe. This is a measure developed by Brussels to facilitate the movement of vaccine passport holders within EU countries.
In order to promote the “vaccine passport” movement within the EU, EU countries have reached a series of measures.
Brussels recommends that the 27 member states of the European Union exempt EU residents with vaccine passports from the travel conditions, exempt from the restriction of accepting quarantine, and exempt children under the age of 6 from receiving new crown testing requirements in order to unify the travel standards within the EU before the summer.
From July 1st, all EU residents who are immune to the new crown virus will receive a digital certification document, a move designed to promote the restoration of freedom of movement in Europe before the pandemic.
(Al Jazeera)Restart the tourism industry
In order to restart the EU tourism industry before the summer, the Union Commission is seeking to unify the procedures that vaccine passport holders need to follow when travelling within the EU, but the decision depends on each country.
Reindes said at a press conference on May 31: “We recommend not to conduct any inspections or quarantine on people who have been fully vaccinated or fully recovered from the new crown vaccine.” He stated that the approach of many member states is wrong. He explained that to prove that a person is fully immune to the new coronavirus, one only needs to prove that two weeks have passed since he received the second (or only) EU-approved vaccine.
For those who have not been vaccinated and have not recently contracted the virus, the committee recommends that different measures be taken for travelers from different countries based on the weekly maps released by the European Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The map uses specific colors to reflect the degree of pandemic risk, so as to classify countries.
According to the map, only travelers from countries classified as “dark red” need to undergo laboratory testing or isolation. “Dark red” means that the country has more than 500 new confirmed cases per 100,000 people in the past 14 days. .
In addition, the committee recommends a standardized expiration date for the 72-hour polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test and the 48-hour rapid antigen test, if the latter test is approved in an EU member state.
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