The Commission would give an additional period of 3 months over the six proposed by the EMA to allow for the rate of vaccination in the countries
The commitment to the booster dose that Brussels has recommended, following the indications of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), for all those over forty will have a practical effect on the validity of the ‘covid passport’. The Commission has proposed this Thursday that the validity of vaccination certificates, the safe conduct to travel throughout the EU, expire nine months after completing the first phase of inoculation. Expect ,. in short, an additional period of 3 months out of the six recommended by the EMA, to ensure that national vaccination campaigns can be adjusted and citizens can have access to booster vials.
The Community Executive raises this measure under the argument that the acceptance of vaccines “has increased significantly” since last summer and the EU Digital COVID Certificate, as this ‘safe conduct’ is formally called “has been successfully implemented” . More than 650 million of these health ‘passports’ have been issued to date. Taking advantage of that inertia and, at the same time, supporting the measures that are already being adopted in many EU countries with the planning of that memory prick that would reinforce the effectiveness of anticovid serums, are the other arguments that Brussels uses for this update . In a scenario, also in which Europe is once again the epicenter of coronavirus infections.
The COVID certificate and the coordinated approach to travel measures throughout the club “have contributed greatly to safe free movement, with the protection of public health as our priority,” stressed the European Commissioner for Health. Stella Kyriakides insisted that more than 65% of the EU population had been immunized with the full schedule, “but it is still not enough; too many people are not protected ”so“ we must urgently achieve significantly higher vaccination rates. We also need to boost our immunity with booster shots. ‘
The European Commission has also proposed an update of the ‘travel traffic light map’, taking into account the level of absorption of vaccines in the different regions. The idea is that it has a purely informative purpose but Brussels considers that “it would also serve to coordinate measures for areas with a particularly low (‘green’) or particularly high (‘dark red’) level of virus circulation.
For travelers coming from the ‘green’ areas, no restrictions would be applied while Brussels asks that governments advise against travel to and from the areas identified with ‘dark red’. People who are not vaccinated or prove that they have overcome the disease will have to undergo a pre-departure test and a quarantine after arrival (with special rules for essential travelers and children under 12 years of age).
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