WHO still says NO to the vaccination passport. What will the EU and Draghi do?
In a statement released Monday after a virtual briefing, the WHO Emergency Committee on International Health Standards officially recommended governments avoid making vaccine passports mandatory , a trend that is already taking hold in the UK and the EU. .
In particular, the committee advised governments “not to require proof of vaccination as a condition of entry, given the limited (albeit growing) evidence about the effectiveness of vaccines in reducing transmission and persistent inequality in the global distribution of vaccines. States parties to the Organization are strongly encouraged to recognize the potential for vaccination test requirements to deepen inequalities and promote differential freedom of movement.
To justify this position, WHO cited both limited data on the vaccine's effectiveness in reducing transmission, and the profound inequalities in availability that the WHO has long complained about.
Incidentally, the Committee also urged governments to do everything possible to support Covax, the WHO-sponsored program designed by Bill Gates to deliver enough shots to vaccinate populations in more than 130 countries. However, the program has failed to allocate enough vaccines, and many poorer nations – other than the 92 officially eligible for aid through Covax – have no idea where to get the vaccines in question.
Meanwhile, on the one hand, the EU wants to launch the "Green certificates", which are nothing more than vaccination, or healing or test certificates, for checks in movements between states, and Italy is thinking of the "Vaccination pass" even for movements between regions. What will they do now in the face of yet another new warning from the WHO of which, in theory, they are part?
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