COVID-19: WHO WARNS TRAVELERS SHOULD NOT BE ASKED TO PROVE THEY ARE VACCINATED

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned today that airports and other points of entry into a country should not ask travelers to prove they are vaccinated against covid-19.

In the epidemiological report that it publishes weekly on the pandemic, the WHO insists that vaccines against the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus cannot be a requirement for travel, since their effects on the reduction of infections are not yet known, in the duration of the immunity they provide, or protect themselves against mild forms of covid-19.

The WHO also stressed that the use of “immunity certificates” for international travelers (both for those who have been vaccinated and for those who have antibodies after overcoming the disease) is not recommended “nor is it currently supported by scientific evidence”.

In the report, the WHO reiterates that people over 60, or with chronic diseases, or belonging to other risk groups, should avoid traveling to countries with a high risk of transmission of covid-19.

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19 Responses

  3. Sorry, don’t agree. Loads of evidence now that vaccines DO work. Requiring people to have them keeps infection risk to the minimum.

  4. Who cares a fig what WHO thinks or says ? The organisation kept quiet for several weeks when it was alerted about the Virus outbreak in Wuhan. And has still failed to point the finger at China as the source/ cause of the Virus. China must be very happy with WHO !

  5. I totally agree with the WHO. Countries that require this will lose tourists. No families with children (who will not be vaccinated) will go to countries that require v/passports.

  6. Thanks for putting this up Tobi. I am hoping that that this possible requirement will be dropped so that we can come back to Madeira asap, otherwise we’ll go elsewhere.

  7. Foolish EU will only go belly up.

    Turkey will have a corridor with the UK in June for holidays beautiful country good health care amazing food super cheap.

    Vaccine passports will not be required.

    1. Personally the fact they are happy to allow anyone in without any testing or vaccination simply means I and many others won’t be taking them up on their kind offer.

  8. Nobody quibbled about carrying vaccination certificates for polio, tetanus, typhoid, smallpox etc etc in the past so what is the big deal about having a vaccination certificate for Covid? Unless that is you are an anti-vaxxer.

    It is the right of every country to set down conditions of entry such as having – a return ticket, sufficient funds, what you can carry with you e.g. foodstuffs, drugs, booze/tobacco etc.

  9. I agree with Maurice! I doubt any country would be so draconian about the vaccination requirement – they probably would have a green channel for those that have been vaccinated and the other for those without but have taken some kind of COVID test to prove they are negative – I don’t think this is discriminatory – it is prudence!

    1. I think all will need testing still as you can still get and pass on covid even when vaccinated. It only reduces the amount of symptoms, and the probable need to go to hospital.

  11. There had been some travel restrictions depending on vaccination in the past. Remember “yellow fever”. But this always had been relevant for limited areas with high infection rates. I do not think that countries in Europe will have such restrictions for Covid19. May be somewhere else in the world. But each private owner can sell his service with restrictions that he likes. As soon as an European vaccination certificate might be available and a majority of people is vaccinated, some hotel owner, cruise ship company, etc. may decide to sell there service only to vaccinated people.

  12. Remember this is an experimental treatment only given emergency usage. The trials do not finish until 2023 which is why the WHO cannot endorse any so called vaccine passports. I am unwilling to take an experimental treatment for a disease that 99.7% of people recover from. The majority of whom do not suffer more than a sniffle and in the UK the average age of death from Covid has now risen to 84. I love Madeira but if I have to have an unnecessary vaccination or a PCR test with a high false positive rate I will sadly never return.

  13. Thank you very much for putting this important information up. Proper information about the vaccines seems to have been banned from the corporate media. One must look elswhere to hear and read what heath professionals and scientists have to say abou the vaccines, in particular the Pfizer one. It is also almost impossible to find information of the number of detahs and side effects, but the info is available. It is, to say the least, very worrying. The other day there was information from NL that 87 peope died after vaccination.87. Of course, this information is followed by unsupported claims that the deaths were not due to the vaccine. On the other hand, anyone who was infected and died within 28 days is counted as having died from Covid, also unsupported. What kind of ‘logic’ is that? The authorities are required by law to inform everyone who wants to be vaccinated that they are participating in an experimet. They are not doing that. Everyone should go to the trouble to informing themselves properly before deiciding whether to take the vaccine and which vaccine.

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