Digital Health Certificates for Air Travel: Some Issues

Abstract

As this chapter was being finalized in early May 2021, the latest figures released by the World Health Organization (WHO) were that “globally, there were 153.7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections with 3.2 million deaths recorded and 1047 million vaccine doses administered. The numbers were growing daily as on 21 April 2021 the figures showed that new COVID-19 cases had increased for the ninth consecutive week, with nearly 5.7 million new cases reported in the week earlier – surpassing previous peaks. The number of new deaths had increased for the sixth consecutive week, with over 87 000 new deaths reported”.