(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany has issued more than 22 million e-vaccine passports

  China News Agency, Berlin, June 20 (Reporter Peng Dawei) German Federal Minister of Health Spun said on the 20th that Germany has issued 22.3 million electronic passports for the new crown vaccine to the public.

People who have obtained passports can enjoy convenience in travel, shopping, and dining during the epidemic.

According to data from the German CDC, as of that day, 25.3 million people in Germany had been fully vaccinated, accounting for 30.4% of the total population.

  Span said on social media that day that Germany has issued a total of 22.3 million e-vaccine passports in the 10 days since the issuance of e-vaccine passports.

He introduced that the current ways for people living in Germany to obtain an e-vaccine passport include going to the vaccination center to receive the vaccination, and to receive the vaccination at the family doctor; those who have completed the vaccination before the electronic vaccination passport is issued can go to the designated The pharmacy receives it, and some German federal state residents can also apply to receive it by mail.

  The electronic vaccine passport currently used in Germany is in the form of a mobile phone QR code to prove that the holder has been fully vaccinated.

The holder can use this passport by downloading a mobile APP program.

From July 1, mutual recognition of electronic vaccine passports will be carried out within the EU.

In the future, people traveling between EU member states will be able to obtain new crown testing and isolation exemptions through electronic vaccine passports.

  As the new crown variant virus, the delta strain, has continued to increase in the proportion of new cases in Germany, research institutes have warned that the strain may pose a threat to the process of German economic recovery.

Feist, director of the Munich ifo Economic Research Institute, an authoritative German economic research institution, said on the same day that the delta strain is posing a growing threat to the German economy.

He warned that if the number of new confirmed diagnoses rebounded again due to the mutation of the new crown virus, those industries that were already severely affected by the epidemic would be hit again-these industries include tourism, catering and retail.

He pointed out that if this happens, this autumn will be full of hardships.

  The number of new confirmed cases and the number of new deaths announced by the German disease control agency that day were 842 and 16 respectively.

According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 20 o'clock on the 20th local time, Germany had a total of 3,729,626 confirmed diagnoses and 91,000 deaths.

As of that day, 42.06 million people in Germany had received at least one dose of the vaccine, accounting for 50.6% of the total population.

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