What is Vaccine Passport and How it works.
                     WHAT IS 
VACCINE 
PASSPORT 
AND HOW IT 
WORKS?
INTRODUCTION
With millions being vaccinated 
against Covid-19 every day, some 
political and business leaders are 
suggesting nations can help get 
life back to normal by rolling out a 
so-called vaccine passport: an 
easily accessible and verifiable 
certification that a person’s been 
inoculated. 
Source: www.bloomberg.com
What’s the idea behind 
vaccine passports?
The idea of a vaccine passport 
would be to create an updated 
version of the so-called yellow 
card, more formally known as the 
International Certificate of 
Vaccination or Prophylaxis, a 
World Health Organization-
approved booklet documenting 
your past inoculations. 
Source: www.bloomberg.com
What will it provide?
Ideally, it would provide proof of 
vaccination status and document 
recent virus test results, which 
would both reassure border 
agents and safeguard fellow 
travelers or event-goers. 
Source: www.bloomberg.com
Who’s considering requiring 
proof of vaccination?
A handful of companies have 
begun mandating or hinting they 
will eventually require proof of 
vaccination, foreshadowing what 
could become a more common 
practice. 
Source: www.bloomberg.com
Safe International Travel
To get the world in motion once 
again, Zurab Pololikashvili, 
secretary general, United Nations 
World Tourism Organisation 
(UNWTO), has called for the global 
adoption of vaccination passports 
as part of wider measures for safe 
resumption of international travel.
Source: www. moneycontrol.com
What is the status of 
Vaccine Passport rollout? 
• First Schengen country to issue 
digital vaccine certificates: 
Iceland has become the first 
country in the Schengen area 
to issue vaccination 
certificates. 
• Of the total population of 3.5 
lakh humans, all the 4,500 who 
have received two doses of 
vaccine are now eligible for a 
digital certificate.
Source: www. moneycontrol.com
Against Mandate Vaccine 
Passport
• It means that entry 
requirements would bar the 
majority of people in the world 
without access to Covid 
vaccines so far. 
• Some people worry that 
vaccine passports would create 
a vaccinated global elite while 
exacerbating inequalities.
Source: www.bloomberg.com
Who’s developing vaccine 
passports?
• There are a number of private 
firms, organizations and 
governments backing or 
attempting to create a 
workable vaccine passport. 
• With financial support from 
Innovate U.K., technology 
companies Mvine and iProov 
have begun live-testing a 
Covid-19 immunity and 
vaccination passport.
Source: www.bloomberg.com
How might border officials 
use vaccine certificates?
• Vaccine passports or 
certificates could be used as a 
way to loosen up current rules 
that bar certain travelers, 
require arriving passengers to 
test negative for the virus and 
compel them to quarantine 
upon arrival.
Source: www.bloomberg.com
WTTC’s No to Mandatory 
Vaccine Passport
• The World Travel and Tourism 
Council (WTTC) has branded 
them ‘discriminatory’. 
• Against mandatory vaccine 
passport, WTTC is in favour of a 
test-and-release scheme where 
travellers test before travel to 
prove they are Covid-free
Source: www.bloomberg.com