Canada Could Launch Its First Vaccine Passport In Under A Month & It'll Be On Your Phone A pocket-sized digital passport. https://www.narcity.com/vaccine-passports-in-canada-could-be-launching-in-early-july
Some destinations are shutting out unvaccinated travelers. Here are a few https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/22/where-are-unvaccinated-people-not-allowed-to-travel-.html
You may want to inform the WHO that Politifact in your opinion proves that the vaccine is safe for children. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/advice Children should not be vaccinated for the moment. There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.
Seeing that no COVID vaccines are approved for children under 12 -- it is little wonder the WHO does not recommend it for children. Why don't you look up their advice for teens.
Well, from the below language, it looks as though the WHO is stating the 17 and under should not take the vaccine. So, that would include teen years 13 through 17. What else do you want to know? Just inform the WHO that they should get all of their guidance from Politifact. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/advice The COVID-19 vaccines are safe for most people 18 years and older, including those with pre-existing conditions of any kind, including auto-immune disorders. These conditions include: hypertension, diabetes, asthma, pulmonary, liver and kidney disease, as well as chronic infections that are stable and controlled. If supplies are limited in your area, discuss your situation with your care provider if you: Have a compromised immune system Are pregnant (if you are already breastfeeding, you should continue after vaccination) Have a history of severe allergies, particularly to a vaccine (or any of the ingredients in the vaccine) Are severely frail Children should not be vaccinated for the moment. There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults. However, children should continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.
Buttigieg says federal government supports rights of companies to implement vaccine passport https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...ent-supports-rights-of-companies-to-implement Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said the federal government supports the rights of companies to implement a COVID-19 vaccine passport policy. Buttigieg was asked by a Texas news outlet his opinion on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) banning companies from requiring proof of vaccination before entering their business. "If a company, a business wants to take steps to keep their workers and their passengers safe, I would think that, from a government perspective, we want to do everything we can to encourage that," Buttigieg told KDFW Fox 4 on Monday. "And that’s certainly our view at the federal level." (More at above url)
Google is building COVID-19 Vaccine Passports directly into Android https://mspoweruser.com/google-is-building-covid-19-vaccine-passports-directly-into-android/ Google is opening up its digital wallet to support COVID-19 vaccine passports. Healthcare provider apps can now save vaccine passports to the wallet, which will show when you were vaccinated and which vaccine you received. Google has said it won’t have access to the specific details saved but will record how often you use the card. Users will be able to add a shortcut to the card to their home screen, to easily display on request. The feature, which is rolling out to the USA first, relies on health care providers who distribute vaccines, such as local governments, to support it, with many authorities however already working on their own vaccine card apps.
NHS can now store your Covid-19 vaccine passport with Google and Apple https://www.express.co.uk/life-styl...re-Covid-19-Vaccine-Passport-Google-Apple-App
Plague rats not allowed... The country with the world’s highest vaccination rate won’t let the unvaccinated enter https://fortune.com/2021/07/12/malta-highest-vaccination-rate-unvaccinated-enter/ There's no country in the world that has fully vaccinated more of its citizens, by proportion, than Malta has. Over 80% of the adult population is fully vaccinated now—and still it's not enough to keep COVID at bay. With case numbers having increased by more than 600% in the past week, the Mediterranean archipelago has become the first country in the European Union to announce a ban on visitors who are not themselves fully vaccinated, or who are not under-12s brandishing a negative PCR test while accompanying vaccinated parents. The ban will take effect on Wednesday, with an exemption for Maltese citizens and residents who have already booked a flight home; they will still be able to enter with a negative PCR test. “In recent days, the majority of new cases were related to travel—people who came from abroad or Maltese who went abroad and came back. Most are those unvaccinated tourists," said Health Minister Chris Fearne on Friday. He added that many cases have been coming from English schools, which the government will also be temporarily shuttering. It's a significant and speedy U-turn for a country that made a big deal of reopening to both vaccinated and unvaccinated tourists at the start of last month, and that was running advertorials as recently as last week, boasting that "no quarantine or other restrictions apply for fully vaccinated tourists coming to Malta or those presenting a PCR COVID-19 test taken not earlier than 72 hours before arrival." Less than a month ago, Malta said people from 38 U.S. states could visit the country with a negative PCR test. That's now over. Even if American tourists can prove they are vaccinated, Malta accepts only vaccine certificates issued in the EU or the U.K. Most worryingly for the travel industry and for the European Commission, the EU's executive body, what Malta just did flies in the face of the united stance on border restrictions and "vaccine passports" that has just been adopted across the union. Since the start of July, there has been a common framework for EU countries accepting digital COVID certificates at their borders. The certificates indicate if a person has been vaccinated, has a recent negative PCR test result, or has recovered from COVID-19. Malta, which has already been ignoring the last option for months, is now effectively accepting only one of three criteria underpinning a system that's less than two weeks old. The Commission, which has spent the pandemic desperately trying to retain some semblance of the EU's fundamental free-movement arrangement, is not amused. "Any [public health measure] that restricts free movement needs to be proportionate and nondiscriminatory," said Commission spokesman Christian Wigand at a Monday press conference. "A vaccine certificate cannot be a precondition for the exercise of free movement. This is one of the main principles of the EU digital COVID certificate regulation." Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela had already said in a Sunday radio interview that the European Commission was critical of the measure. "We were already more restrictive than the others, and now we will be even more restrictive…The lives and livelihoods of the Maltese are what matters," he said. The Association of British Travel Agents told the Guardian that Malta's new rules were "confusing" but said it was confident other EU countries would remain open to travel—even those such as Spain, which is also seeing a vertiginous rise in case numbers.
Vaccine passports are essential, best get used to it https://www.therecord.com/opinion/e...sports-are-essential-best-get-used-to-it.html