Australians have a 'vaccine passport' to avoid border closures. We're not using it. Yet
Lockdowns, border closures, mass event cancellations. Key points: People in the EU who are fully vaccinated can enjoy quarantine-free travel using 'vaccine passports' Inoculated Australians have a similar digital certificate on their phones, but it has no rights attached to it Vaccine passports could be used to give states more confidence to keep borders open From next week, however, 14 countries in the European Union will open quarantine-free travel to people who are fully immunised against COVID-19, something they will prove using a digital "vaccine passport". "This stop/start, open/close, the rolling lockdowns, the reverberations off the back of lockdown — you really can't plan," Victoria Tourism Industry Council chief executive Felicia Mariani said. "But as another further incentive, enabling people to be able to move freely, initially, within our own country — and then potentially once we open up, to be able to move more freely overseas — I think is another very good incentive as to why Australians should want to get vaccinated." "I think it would have the framework for business — and then for the consumers — to have some confidence that this is the way forward and that their plans, you know, particularly if they're vaccinated, mean that they've got a certain level of certainty in what they're organising as well," she said.
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