England to launch nine ‘vaccine passport’ pilots from mid-April; Australia reports no new local cases
The debate around vaccine certificates in the UK continues this morning. Professor Melinda Mills, director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford, told BBC Breakfast there were “still a lot of open questions” about the Government’s planned Covid status certification scheme.
She said:
There’s scientific questions, there’s logistical questions - how will it work - with an app or a paper version? - and there’s real ethical questions as well, too: do I have to pay for the testing if I haven’t been vaccinated or had that opportunity?
So there are still a lot of open questions.
Once you have forgery you will lose your legitimacy, so it will be really important to understand technically how this will work. The only way to build trust in these systems is through transparency.
In Australia, people have celebrated Easter Sunday in a relatively unrestricted manner as the country reported no new locally acquired coronavirus cases. Reuters reports:
Queensland, the epicentre of a recent, small COVID-19 community outbreak, has had only one infection in the past three days. The state has the tightest restrictions on public gatherings.
As the supply has increased with the sovereign vaccine manufacturing, so has the rollout.
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