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Vaccine passports that prove a person's Covid-19 immunisation status are expected to be available from December for New Zealanders who want to travel abroad. In Australia, the government is working to have a vaccine passport system in place within the next few weeks as the country looks to resume international jet-setting.
However, with the Delta variant becoming dominant around the world and fully vaccinated people becoming infected with Covid-19, questions are being raised about the effectiveness of the vaccines and whether vaccine passports are actually worthwhile.
Professor Kim Mulholland is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, and Professor of Child Health and Vaccinology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is also a member of the World Health Organisation's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE), which advises the WHO on overall vaccine policies and strategies.
New Zealand's 'vaccine passport' is likely to be a digital Covid-19 vaccination certificate containing a QR code. Photo: 123rf
