EU’s Travel Pass: Seven Countries Now Using Digital Certificate

Seven countries have begun using the EU’s ‘Digital COVID certificate’ to allows their citizens to easily travel across the European Union bloc.

The European Commission says seven member states – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Croatia and Poland – have connected to the gateway and started issuing the first certificates. Other countries will follow suit when all functions are deployed nationwide, it added.

The certificate is available in digital or paper form, free of charge. The gateway allows for all certificates’ QR codes to be accessed.

The EU’s plan is for a single system to facilitate safe travel by verifying the pass holder’s coronavirus status – whether through vaccination, a recent negative test result, or proof of recovery from the virus.

More than 20 countries have successfully tested the system in the last month, the European Commission says. The launch follows an agreement between the European Parliament and Council on regulation.