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London, United Kingdom – From Israel to Iceland, several governments around the world are adopting so-called coronavirus vaccine passports as they bid to safely reopen borders, unfreeze economies from costly lockdowns and restore a semblance of normality to social life. Supporters of the vaguely-defined certificates argue they have a critical role to play in ending restrictions imposed to curtail the spread of the pandemic, at least in countries with widescale access to vaccines. Documents showing proof of inoculation against COVID-19 could mean sweeping travel bans and strict stay-at-home...

After months of costly shutdowns, closed borders and curtailed personal freedoms, the concept of vaccine passports is gaining traction with governments eager to plot their path through the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of countries, including Bahrain and China, have already rolled out their own forms of certification ostensibly intended to ease future international travel or revive activity in hard-hit sectors of economies, such as hospitality. Several others are weighing whether to follow suit and embrace the idea of documentation for those who have been vaccinated against th...

Israel is pushing stringent new measures to incentivise vaccination  Feb 19, 2021, 08:22 PM facebook email A woman gets a COVID-19 vaccine at a bar in Tel Aviv, Israel, on February 18, 2021. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images Israel is offering benefits to its fully vaccinated citizens to try to incentivise inoculation.  From Sunday, those who can show a certificate of vaccination will be allowed to go to gyms, sports events, cultural events. Officials have been explicit that people who avoid vaccines will be "left behind." Israel has been praised around the ...

Don't show me this message again✕ Intensive care units across the NHS are already overwhelmed by Covid patients (AFP via Getty) Doctors across the NHS face an “immediate reality” of having to choose which patients are prioritised for care as the numbers of coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country. At one hospital trust, medics have been told they may have to accept a “just good enough” standard of care for patients in coming weeks, while the medical regulator has said it recognised difficult decisions were being made “day after day, shift after shift” across the c...