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6 April 2021updated 03 Aug 2021 11:59am

There’s an app for that: What Britain can learn from Israel’s vaccine passports

Michael Gove has suggested the UK take inspiration from Israel’s health pass scheme – but what would that look like?

By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio

On 5 April, as Boris Johnson confirmed the easing of lockdown restrictions in England would go ahead as planned, the prospect of “Covid certificates”, or the contentious “vaccine passports”, was raised once again.

The idea is that certificates could be used to allow those who have been vaccinated, have antibodies or have recently tested negative for Covid-19 to travel and have access to certain venues without increasing the risk of transmission.

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