Chile seeks world green vaccination passport 

The president of Chile Sebastián Piñera announced Sunday, May 23 the implementation of a mobility pass for those who have received two doses of a vaccine against Covid-19 and is holding talks for an international green passport.

The pass “will give greater degrees of freedom and mobility to people who have fully completed their vaccination process with the doses and times required (14 days after the second dose),” said Piñera at the Santiago airport.

The president received 2.2 million doses from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac at the air terminal, the largest shipment that has arrived in the country since the vaccination campaign began on December 24.

The pass, which will be digital and dynamic, will allow beneficiaries to move freely in and out of quarantined locations. Those who live in municipalities that are not confined may also travel between regions.

“These greater freedoms have to be accompanied with greater responsibility and these freedoms are going to be expanded according to the evolution of sanitary conditions,” said the president.

He added that he is holding “talks at the international level” to implement a “green passport” that will give Chileans greater mobility abroad.

The government intends to complete the vaccination campaign for the target population on June 30.

The good rate of vaccination has placed the country as a leader in this area in Latin America.

Covid-19 has left more than 1.3 million infections and more than 28,500 deaths after a 14-month pandemic.