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New York's Excelsior Pass is USA's first COVID-19 vaccine passport
•The passport is essential a QR code that shows your vaccination status and was introduced in March.
Vaccine passports: How a global verification system would work for international travel
Fp Staff •Keen to avoid losing another summer of holiday revenue to COVID-19 pandemic, the EU and some Asian governments and the airline industry are scrambling to develop so-called vaccine passports
WHO against use of vaccine passports for international travel as it would promote inequality
•Some have criticized that the passport would lead to discrimination between young, old and rich, poor.
Vaccine passports: Examining travel industry's push for tourist health passes, potential for risks and unfairness
•A vaccine passport is documentation that shows a traveler has been vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus that causes it.
As travel begins to normalise after a year of lockdowns, will vaccine passports become the way forward?
•It has been suggested that the lure of a vaccine passport could result in more people stepping forward to get vaccinated.
COVID-19 vaccine passports raise concerns about discrimination amin hope for an economic restart
•If vaccines become a passport to doing things, we may see communities that have been already hardest hit by COVID being left behind.