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EU reaches deal, vaccine passports come on July 1!
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The European Union reached a deal on Thursday on COVID-19 certificates designed to open up tourism across the 27-nation bloc this summer as a rapid pick-up of vaccinations allows widespread easing of coronavirus restrictions.
European Parliament lawmakers and current EU president Portugal representing member states sealed the agreement after a fourth round of negotiations on Thursday afternoon.
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“We won’t be repeating the nightmare of summer 2020,” Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, the Spanish lawmaker who headed the parliament’s team, told a news conference.
The free certificate will take the form of a QR code on a smartphone or paper, letting authorities determine the status of a visitor based on records in their home EU country. The certificate would show if a person had received a vaccine, had a recent negative test or had immunity based on recovery.
Nearly 40% of EU adults have received a first vaccine dose.
Lawmakers had wanted countries to commit to free testing for the certificate and said that no EU country should set additional quarantine requirements.
You should not need any more documentation to travel other than a passport. The Covid-19 is just a bit more infectious than the regular influenza, just let the people live their life, do not need any vaccine on a yearly bases, we need vitamins, freedom and sunshine and NO Lock-downs and no mask any more.
Zoltan, Santa Cruz, California
This injection is still on trial until 2023 so should not be made mandatory until proven.