MOSCOW – The European Union’s draft project to create certificates for those inoculated against Covid-19 envisages that people vaccinated with Russian or Chinese vaccines will be able to enter EU member states that have registered these vaccines, Sputnik quoted an El Pais report yesterday, citing the draft.
The draft project is set to be considered at a meeting of the European Commission today.
According to the newspaper, the so-called vaccine passports will allow Europeans who have been immunised with coronavirus vaccines approved by the EU regulator to travel freely across the bloc, despite existing restrictions.
The certificate will also be issued to those who received vaccines approved by separate EU member states, such as Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm-developed vaccines, registered by Hungary and Slovakia. In these cases, such vaccinees will only be able to travel to EU countries that have also registered the same vaccines.
These “green passports” will be issued free of charge and contain information in the official language of the issuing country and in English, the newspaper reported, adding they will also be digital. – Bernama, March 17, 2021
