Estonia: Blockchain & Vaccine Passports
WHO and Estonia agreed in October 2020 to collaborate on developing a digitally enhanced International Certificate of Vaccination, a “smart yellow card” to help strengthen the effectiveness of the COVAX initiative, established to speed development and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, reprots ZDNet.
Dubbed VaccineGuard, the platform’s goal is to link between various agents, “from the vaccine’s point of manufacture all the way to the border guard controlling an individual traveller,” the report says.
Similar to CoWin, when administering a vaccine, healthcare providers will be required to generate a digital certificate in the form of a QR code, which patients could in turn access via email, through an app or as a printout.
With CoWin, however, the QR code will only be provided to those who register on the app. The app doesn’t use blockhain technology’s distributed and verified ledger system to track vaccination.
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