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European citizens will be able to travel again this summer if they show that they have been vaccinated, tested negative or cured of Covid-19 and developed antibodies. These are the key contents of the new Covid pass presented today by the EU Commission to relaunch travel in Europe.
The certificate, which is expected to be available from June in digital or paper format, will be legally binding for member states and will admit all vaccines available on the market, explained the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders.
“With the vaccination certificate we intend to help the Member States to return to a safe and coordinated mobility”, said this morning the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, and again: “The objective is to reopen”.
Von der Leyen also said that “the epidemiological situation is getting worse.” The president of the European Commission spoke about the non-delivery of AstraZeneca vaccines: “AstraZeneca has announced that unfortunately in the second quarter it will deliver 70 million doses to the European Union compared to the 180 million it had promised to supply contractually.” But, “despite AstraZeneca’s non-compliance with vaccine dose delivery commitments – he said – with the arrival of the first doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine from April we can reach the goal of having 70 percent of adults vaccinated in late summer. ” Unlike the Anglo-Swedish company, BionTech-Pfizer and Moderna have kept their commitments. Von der Leyen explained that 200 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech will arrive in the second quarter, 55 from Johnson & Johnson and 35 from Moderna. The first J&J vaccines are expected in April.
“It is important to accelerate the vaccination campaign. I trust AstraZeneca,” said Von der Leyen. “Tomorrow the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will make another statement and I am convinced that it will clarify the situation” of the doubts that have arisen in several countries about the preamble.
