Posted on 03/09/2021 6:51:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
ountries should not require travelers to present so-called “vaccine passports” for international travel during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, as such a demand would be unfair to nations with limited vaccination capabilities, a senior World Health Organization (W.H.O.) official said Monday.
“Vaccination is just not available enough around the world and is not available certainly on an equitable basis,” Dr. Michael Ryan, director of the W.H.O. Health Emergencies Program, said at a press briefing March 8.
Ryan said the W.H.O., the United Nations’ (U.N.) official health body, advises against the use of coronavirus vaccine passports for now while there are still “real practical and ethical considerations” surrounding their implementation.
The W.H.O emergencies chief also noted vaccine certification as a condition for travel could be unfair to people who cannot be vaccinated for various reasons. Such a stringent travel requirement would potentially allow “inequity and unfairness (to) be further branded into the system,” Ryan said.
More than 200,000 people in the United Kingdom (U.K.) have signed a petition urging the government not to introduce vaccine passports for both domestic and foreign travel. The petition’s high number of signatures means U.K. parliament members may debate the request. Vaccination for the Chinese coronavirus is not currently mandatory in Britain. The petition’s authors argue vaccine passports “would be unacceptable” as they could be “used to restrict the rights of people who have refused a Covid-19 [coronavirus] vaccine.”
The petition gained traction with Britons after U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced February 23 he had appointed U.K. Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove to review a possible “vaccine certificate” or vaccine passport scheme, which could see Britain’s existing National Health Service smartphone app “updated to include proof of vaccination,” according to the BBC. The U.K. government had previously said it did not plan to introduce such...
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What, secure borders because people might bring in lethal diseases? Whodathunkit?
Sounds reasoned until you think of it this way.
They back the free for all illegal immigration into the U. S.
It would be hard for them to claim there is a need for COVID-19
Vaccine Passports, and still favor open borders.
We’re not the only place they want open borders either.
How long before the WHO changes their mind? One week? Three weeks? A month?
One day.
Remember when Obama let Ebola into the country?
We are SO far BEYOND "correcting" this crap.
The American democrat party is the global ring leader of Satanic destruction.
Don’t forget they Obama/Biden just stopped testing one day for, I believe, H1N1 because they said it had spread everywhere and nothing we could do and no one talked about it again.
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