The European Union Reaches Deal on Health Passes for Travelers by June

Abstract

Travelers and citizens within the European Unition (EU) will have the opportunity to freely travel between boarders this summer as the rollout of a hopeful mobile application launches across the 27 member bloc. The idea around the verification is that a QR code will be taken from a smartphone or paper which indicates to authorities if a travelers has received a vaccine, negative COVID-19 test, or is recovering from the virus and produces immunity. This comes at a time when the entire EU, Germany and Sweden, have not agreed on the process in which health status has been approved and when the EU has not solidified a plan to open it's boarder to non-EU countries.