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Covid-19: China launches digital health certificates for overseas travel
. WeChat-based system uses QR codes to show travellers’ coronavirus and antibody test results and whether they have been vaccinated China ready to discuss ‘the establishment of mutual recognition mechanisms’ with other countries, foreign ministry says. China has launched a digital health certificate that it hopes will help make foreign travel easier for its citizens. Photo: EPA-EFE China has launched a digital health certificate that it hopes will help make foreign travel easier for its citizens.
China has launched a digital health certificate for its citizens that they might one day be able to use as a “vaccine passport”, as countries around the world embark on inoculation programmes and consider ways to reopen their borders.
The certificates, which work though the WeChat social media platform, include details of users’ coronavirusand antibody test results and whether they have been vaccinated against Covid-19, ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a press briefing. All of the information is encrypted in a QR code that can be verified, decrypted and read using a public key provided by the issuing authority, he said.The digital document, which is available only to Chinese nationals, could then be provided to the relevant authorities overseas as evidence of a person’s health status, he said. “China stands ready to discuss with other countries the establishment of mutual recognition mechanisms for health code information on the basis of accommodating each other’s concerns,” Zhao said.The launch of the programme comes after it was announced by Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a press conference held on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress
in Beijing.
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