Today the World Health Organization (WHO) has partnered with the European Commission to extend the European Union (EU) covid-19 digital certification to the entire world, anticipating future uses, such as the “yellow” notice for digital vaccines, and applying to Lusa.
In a memorandum released today in Brussels, the Community’s executive body reports a “historic partnership in digital health” with the World Health Organization, given that the organization will adopt the EU’s digital certification for covid-19, valid for about two years. .
The foundation adds that the idea is to “create a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens around the world from current and future health threats.”
This is the first component of the WHO’s Global Digital Health Certification Network, which will develop digital products for all.
This global digital health certificate network is based on the “EU Digital Certificate Open Principles and Technologies for covid-19”, for the “convergence of digital certificates” and “the establishment of standards and validation of digital signatures to prevent fraud”.
“This partnership will work towards technically developing the WHO system with a phased approach to cover additional use cases, which may include, for example, the digitization of the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prevention,” the European Commission notes in the press release. , referring to a future electronic vaccine bulletin (the so-called “Yellow Notice”), recognized on various sites.
Brussels concluded that the first component of the WHO’s global system should be “ready for action in June 2023,” as it is being gradually developed in the coming months.
The European Commission and the World Health Organization will “work together to encourage maximum acceptance and participation around the world”, with “particular attention to equal participation opportunities for those who need it most, low- and middle-income countries”.
The certificate, certifying a (negative) test, vaccination or recovery from SARS-CoV-2, will come into force in the Federation in early July 2021.
In 2022, EU member states agreed that people with a valid Covid-19 certificate, such as vaccinated or recovered, should be excluded from additional restrictions on freedom of movement, such as testing or quarantine, to facilitate travel within a community space.
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