Confused COVID pass: the Commission wants it with 12 months duration
Houston, or rather Rome, we have a problem: while we shorten the duration of the COVID pass from the last vaccine injection, the European Commission is ready to propose a recommendation or a delegated act to extend the use of the COVID certificate to travel to the EU, a source familiar with the matter told EURACTIV.com. The source added that the certificate will expire twelve months after the last dose of a COVID-19 vaccine is administered.
This means that someone will need a test or a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to travel, but, at the same time, that the limit mentioned in Italy, that is nine months, is not within the limits set by the commission.
It is uncertain whether the Commission proposal will take the form of a delegated act or a recommendation. However, everything should happen tomorrow.
The source said that Member States in principle agree with the Commission's management, but admitted that they did not want to “make too much noise around it” considering the high number of unvaccinated people in their countries. It is practically done on tiptoe, you never know.
Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Greece and Belgium have started offering everyone the third dose, without major problems. Italy and other countries do it selectively, towards the elderly or people with particular pathologies. However, there does not appear to have been any particular success in solving the problem.
Other countries have recommended it for the elderly and those with underlying health problems.
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