There’s a clear moral case for those who work with the elderly to be able to prove they’ve been vaccinated. One of the most appalling tragedies of the pandemic was the failure to protect the elderly in care homes. The safety-first mentality could spread into almost every area of modern life. All they need is for other governments to give them the go-ahead.īut the application of vaccine passports will inevitably extend far beyond holidays. Spain, Italy, Cyprus and Malta - all desperate to revive tourism - are in favour of vaccine passports. Joe Biden has asked for an evaluation of a vaccine ID scheme for Americans. Israel has introduced a ‘green pass’ for those who can prove their immunity status, which grants them access to shopping centres, gyms and museums.
He’d like the EU to oversee it.ĭenmark will start issuing vaccine passports this month, followed by Sweden, where identity cards and ‘personal numbers’ are already ubiquitous. A system of immunisation passports could get us flying again.
His logic is simple and compelling: vaccines speed up the return to normal life. The Prime Minister of Greece, whose economy depends on holidaymakers, has proposed a system of vaccine passports, a global ID card scheme which identifies the vaccinated.
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But all this potential freedom isn’t entirely free - it could very well depend on whether we can prove we’ve had the jab. If we want to go abroad, that might be a different matter. Matt Hancock has promised a ‘happy and free’ summer - or, as he’s careful to say, ‘British summer’. The Prime Minister has assured us that ‘things will be very different by the spring’. By the end of next month, if the vaccine rollout continues at its current rate, all over-50s will have been offered their first jab. The Covid vaccines promise freedom, or at least some version of it according to government ministers. After a year in and out of lockdown, are we ready to make some more? Who hasn’t looked back and wondered how we can return to that life which now seems so free.
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