No alternative to vaccine passports, says Dubai airport boss

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

No alternative to vaccine passports, says Dubai airport boss

By Jonathan Josephs
Business reporter, BBC News

16 May 2021

The boss of the world's busiest airport for international passengers has said Covid passports are the only way to restart mass foreign travel.

Dubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths told the BBC: "I don't think there is an alternative."

Critics of the digital systems argue they discriminate against those who cannot get vaccinated.

But Mr Griffiths says he is a complete supporter of the documents, which he says are "inevitable".

"I think the problem is not the vaccine passport and its discrimination. It's the need to roll things out and have a proper globally equitable vaccine programme," he said.

The World Health Organisation and World Travel & Tourism Council are among those opposed to vaccine passports amid fears they will create a "two-tier society".

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57108969

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Not Here In Good 'Ol America

Aside from being a requirement for the Mosh Pit at Dead & Company shows, I have yet to hear of ANYTHING happening so far as vaccine passports goes.

I don't see it becoming a thing here. Hope I'm wrong, but I've been right about most of the Bullshit from the deniers, anti-maskers, anti-vaccine people, so I know it's a non-starter.

[Bev54]

2. We have idiots here in Canada as well, that yell about vaccine passports, including my siblings,

but when my son was young (and their children as well) they all had Health passports which recorded all the vaccines as they went through life. On the outside they are just like a passport and inside all needles etc are recorded by the nurse. They have short memories it seems. My son is going to get his vaccine in a week, I told him he should take it with him to record it, then show it to his antivaxxer co-workers, mess with their heads a little.