The European health certificate should make it easier to travel to Europe without taking the risk of exporting the coronavirus -

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The European authorities are aiming for the entry into service of a health certificate, the “green passport”, to facilitate travel within the European Union before the summer holidays, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton announced on Sunday.

This draft certificate, which will be presented on Wednesday, will contain information "which will indicate that a person has been vaccinated against Covid-19, or that he has recovered, or that he has received a negative result in the test" , said Thierry Breton during the “Grand Rendez-vous” Europe 1-CNEWS-Les Echos.

Target end of June

"It will be either in electronic or paper form", to respect those who "do not want to put this on their smartphone, and it is their right," said the commissioner.

Equipped with a free QR code, it will be in the language of each country and translated into English, and it "will be valid in all the countries of the European Union", he detailed.

"We are working to have it done before June," said Thierry Breton, believing that it was "essential that we do everything to preserve the tourist season".

The European Commissioner also returned to the announcement the day before by AstraZeneca of further reductions in deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine to the European Union, deeming this situation "unacceptable to me, or in any case incomprehensible".

He considered that this state of affairs could translate "a dysfunction in the logistics chain", refusing nevertheless to consider legal consequences as they stand.

And he wanted to be reassuring about the European vaccination program: "it is not because we are behind on AstraZeneca that we will be behind on our vaccination program for the first trimester," he said. promised.

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