The Swedish government announced on Thursday that it will launch a digital “vaccine passport” for the coronavirus to allow people who have been vaccinated to travel.
The minister of digitalization, Anders Ygeman, said that three authorities in Sweden were invited to work on the production of the certificate and that the plan is to coordinate it with the World Health Organization and the European Union.
Ygeman told a news conference that vaccination certifications are likely to be required for travel and “possibly for participation in other activities” when Sweden and neighboring countries start to open up again.
The announcement came after the Danish government said on Wednesday that it is joining forces with companies to develop a digital passport that shows whether people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, allowing them to travel and helping to ease restrictions on public life.
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Finance Minister Morten Boedskov said at a news conference that “in three, four months, a Corona digital passport will be ready for use, for example, on business trips”.
“It is absolutely crucial for us to be able to restart Danish society so that companies can get back on track. Many Danish companies are global companies with the whole world as a market,” he added.
The Danish government said it would decide later whether the digital passport should be used for purposes other than travel, to help reopen public life.
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The European Commission, for its part, is evaluating proposals to issue vaccination certificates to help get travelers to their holiday destinations more quickly and avoid another disastrous summer for the European tourism sector. But the EU’s executive arm said that, for now, these certificates would be used only for medical purposes, for example, to monitor the possible adverse effects of vaccines.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.