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India is working with the European Union member countries to extend the exemption granted on travel restrictions under its Digital Covid Certificate framework to Indians who have taken Covaxin or Covishield vaccines.
As a reciprocal gesture, India is offering to waive mandatory quarantine requirements for EU nationals holding the EU Digital Covid Certificate from those countries which agree to relax travel restrictions on Indians who have taken Covaxin or Covishield.
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The digital certificate is scheduled to come into force on Thursday and seeks to facilitate safe and free movement of citizens in the European Union during the pandemic. As of date, only four vaccines have been authorised for use in the EU by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Comirnaty, Spikevax (previously Moderna), Vaxzevria (previously AstraZeneca) and Janssen.
India Approaches EU States To Set Up Reciprocal Vaccine Certificate Recognition 01/07/2021
Union Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: Even as the process of recognition of Covishield and Covaxin by the EU’s drugs regulator for its ‘Green Pass’ vaccine-passport scheme will take some time, India has approached each of the 27 members states to set up a reciprocal policy of recognition of vaccine certificates to allow for travellers to skip quarantine.
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Update: 12:55 pm, July 1, 2021] And in response to India’s request, Austria, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Slovenia and Spain have agreed to include Covishield on their lists of permitted vaccines. As a result, Covishield recipients in India can be eligible to receive ‘Green Passes’ under the EU plan.
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