Covid Passport

[smurfchops]

I am not booking a holiday at the moment but am wondering just what a Covid Passport is. Is it the little blue and white card l have been given by the NHS when l had my first jab? Wonder how easy it would be to fake this and to fake any other type of certificate come to that.

[bobbinwales]

No wont be that. itll be digital on your phone. But still early days

[ichkeria]

At the moment there is no such thing.
I have a feeling there won't ever be, either, because the way it's looking at the moment, by the time it's sorted out it'll not matter much any more.
I daresay some places will ask for proof of vaccination however.

[emmie]

its not been implemented as yet, no its not the little card you were given.

[dannyk13]

So far it has not been decided what form a Covid passport would take, or that there will actually be such a thing.

[bobbinwales]

It as to be acceptable to other countrys so uk goverment needsto liase with other govs

[emmie]

easy to fake most things these days.

[smurfchops]

OH doesn’t have a mobile phone though. Can he go on mine?? Tia.

[ichkeria]

A "covid passport" is generally taken to mean something you use at home to get you places.
And nothing to do with international travel.

[Bobbisox1]

It may be in the shape of an FCS form, you go to the website of the country you'd be travelling to and fill in your details, you then recieve a QR code which would be scanned at your destination airport, we had to do this last October

[emmie]

i wouldn't have a clue what a QR code is -

[emmie]

won't you need proof of vaccinations, presumably you have had to have both before being able to travel.

[ichkeria]

That is something that comes from the receiving country.
I'm quite sure something of that sort will exist for quite a while.
But a "covid passport" would be something you get in the UK.

[Bobbisox1]

It's one of these Emmie

https://www.google.com/search?q=QR+code&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB870GB870&oq=QR+code&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i67l2j0i67i131i433j0i67j5.4851j0j7&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

[dave50]

I think it's a good idea.

[Bobbisox1]

It asks on the FCS form you fill in the relevant questions like Have you been in contact etc,

[bednobs]

"OH doesn’t have a mobile phone though. Can he go on mine?? Tia."
smurf are you actually reading your answers? - there is currently no such thing as a covid passport, so it's completely moot.

[woofgang]

nobody knows what one "is" yet because they don't exist. There are still ethical and legal issues around differentiating between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated in England; but its seeming likely that there will need to be one that works for international travel and it will need to meet whatever the global standard is. Smartphones may not be the way forward, given that globally not everyone has one....maybe even the majority haven't.

[237SJ]

The EU are talking about having a vaccination passport for within member states. Don`t know about the rest of the world though. I don't see how self declaration can work - it's too easy to lie. Maybe it'll be something like the EH1C card

[ichkeria]

By the time any sort of "international standard" has been drawn up for travel it will long have ceased to matter much.
For international travel, different countries will do different things for the foreseeable future.
I can't really see a national system ever working. Things like that get talked about but rarely happen and if they do happen they are usually a fiasco.

[woofgang]

ich, I thought this too.