Covid-19: Irish vaccine passports 'accelerated' jab uptake

Covid-19 vaccine uptake in the Republic of Ireland 'would have been much lower' without the vaccine passport scheme, an immunology expert has said. Prof Kingston Mills from Trinity College Dublin said it was 'a big incentive' for people to get jabbed. When indoor hospitality reopened in July, the Irish government said people had to be vaccinated or recently recovered from Covid-19 to get in. That requirement will be removed from 22 October. The EU Digital Covid Certificate, enables people to show proof of their vaccination status, or if they recently had a negative PCR test or recently recovered from the disease.