A vaccination passport to have the right to resume a normal life?
This is the idea evoked by UDI MP Valérie Six, Wednesday evening, at the National Assembly.
This "green passport", according to her, could encourage the French, partly defiant, to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
. @ six_valerie proposes the establishment of a "green passport" for vaccinated people, which would allow them to go to restaurants or places of culture.
This measure, implemented in Israel, would encourage vaccination, she argues. # DirectAN # COVID19 pic.twitter.com/rHBQvM8Qm9
- LCP (@LCP) December 16, 2020
Thanks to this passport, the French will be able "to become aware that vaccination makes it possible to protect themselves, but also others", she declared.
What would this passport allow?
And how would it work?
Explanations.
What is a “green passport” used for?
According to the member, this passport would be issued to people vaccinated against Covid-19.
They would then have the right to access places that are now closed because of the risk of contamination, such as restaurants and cultural places.
"This will allow us collectively to find a social life, a cultural life", developed the elected.
Does it already exist elsewhere?
In Israel, Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein this week announced the establishment of a "green passport" for people vaccinated.
This, issued two weeks after the administration of the second dose of the vaccine, will allow its holders to attend cultural events and go to restaurants.
It also allows you to be exempted from quarantine after having been in contact with an infected person and to avoid tests before traveling abroad, he said.
With the vaccination campaign starting on December 23 in the country, these passports should appear in January.
"It will be a difficult logistical operation," however admitted the minister, quoted by the Jerusalem Post.
Estonia and the World Health Organization have been working since October on an electronic vaccination certification project, called the "smart yellow card" ("an intelligent yellow card" in French).
This card would allow better monitoring of health and immunization data, particularly in developing countries.
"We are thinking very closely about the use of this technology in the response against Covid-19", commented Siddhartha Datta, adviser to WHO-Europe, specialist in preventable diseases thanks to vaccines.
In Australia, airline Qantas recently announced that it would require its passengers to be vaccinated before they can travel on its lines.
Is this really the solution to the epidemic?
Not really, according to the World Health Organization, which has yet launched this vaccination certificate project in Estonia.
"We do not recommend immunity passports, and we do not recommend the use of tests as a way to avoid transmission of the virus at borders," said Catherine Smallwood, responsible for emergency situations at the WHO. -Europe, December 3.
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At this stage, the impact of the vaccine against transmission is not yet known: the data above all say that it allows patients to not suffer from severe forms of the disease.
Therefore, allowing the entry of vaccinated people into public places would not guarantee the elimination of the risk of contamination.
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The implementation of these passports also raises many questions, in particular "on the protection of private data and human rights", worries the British law professor Ana Beduschi, in a report for the University of Exeter, who admits they can help manage the epidemic in the long run.
But she laments the fact that these passports "use sensitive personal information, create a new distinction between individuals based on their health, and can be used to determine the degree of freedom and rights they may have."
