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WHO admits uncertainty over whether or not COVID-19 vaccines prevent transmission, does not recommend passports
“There are all those other questions, apart from the question of discrimination against the people who are not able to have the vaccine for one reason or another …”
Admitting to “uncertainty” over whether or not COVID-19 vaccines prevent transmission of the virus, the World Health Organization says that at the moment it does not recommend implementing so-called “vaccine passports.”
The WHO, through a spokesman Tuesday, also expressed concern about “equity,” noting that some people don’t have access to a vaccine for various reasons.
“We as WHO are saying at this stage we would not like to see the vaccination passport as a requirement for entry or exit because we are not certain at this stage that the vaccine prevents transmission,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said at a U.N. briefing, Reuters reported.
“There are all those other questions, apart from the question of discrimination against the people who are not able to have the vaccine for one reason or another,” she said.
Harris said the WHO plans to review two COVID-19 vaccines developed by China, Sinopharm and Sinovac.