The first EU member state to initiate the testing of a digital COVID-19 travel certificate will be France. As part of a Europe-wide scheme, Brussels hopes it will allow people to travel more safely and freely within the bloc by summertime. Part of France’s contact tracing programme is an app called TousAntiCovid, and it has been upgraded to store negative COVID-19 test results on travellers’ phones.
The trial will be extended from April 29th to include vaccination certificates, with the system eventually being adopted for public events such as festivals and concerts, with an exception being bars and restaurants. The French trial will form one part of a ‘reinforced, consolidated, and standardised Europe-wide system. Such certificates and systems are crucial for various EU countries whose economies have been immensely impacted by the pandemic.
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