“In March, we pledged to create a pan-European system to facilitate safe travel across the EU for summer holidays.

We can now confirm that the EU's COVID-19 digital certificate system is up and running.

More than 200 million certificates have already been generated, ”TASS reports from the European Commission.

The system for issuing European certificates of vaccination officially entered into force on July 1 in all 27 countries of the community.

They are designed to facilitate the movement of citizens within the EU.

The document is issued in electronic form and has a QR code.

Earlier, the director of the European Bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO) Hans Kluge said that in Europe the number of cases of coronavirus has increased due to the weakening of restrictions.