In a reply to a question posed in Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs V Muraleedharan clarified that the government has no plans to introduce a vaccine passport. The minister however added that there have been discussions regarding COVID-19 vaccine certificates, but no decision has been taken in this regard.
“There is no plan to introduce vaccine passport. While there have been multilateral discussions, including under the framework of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), regarding COVID-19 vaccination certificates, no multilateral arrangements in this regard have been reached so far,” the minister said.
This comes at a time when several countries in the western world are planning to roll out a vaccine passport. Vaccine passports are documentary proof that a person has been vaccinated. However, India has been issuing the CoWIN vaccine certificates to fully vaccinated people and with this, they can travel…