![]() “To take the next step, and make it easier to travel, that’s the obvious next step,” Green said. The obvious application for Hawaii is to enable travelers into the state more easily, by using proof of vaccination instead of a negative test. ![]() ![]() While there are several vaccine passports in the works – most notably ones being created by IBM, CommonPass’ parent The Commons Project, an aviation outfit called Verifly and the International Air Transportation Association – they all would generally do the same thing: provide proof that the person carrying the document had been vaccinated. Meanwhile, although executives with the firm working to develop Hawaii’s passport wouldn’t comment for this article, a spokeswoman for CommonPass wrote in an email that, “We have some news that corresponds to your query going out next week.” Josh Green, who serves as the state’s COVID-19 liaison and who helped develop a program that lets people skip a 10-day quarantine by getting a negative test, said that while “there’s no official date,” he thinks a vaccine passport for travelers to Hawaii could be in place by May 15. Kenneth Hara, who leads the state’s response as director of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, declined to comment.īut unofficially, there are signs that a passport could be coming in time for summer. Libby Char, recently called a vaccine passport for Hawaii “a possibility” but didn’t respond to an interview request for this article. David Ige’s administration isn’t talking. ![]() So what’s the status of Hawaii’s attempts to create such a vaccine passport or certificate – seen as an enormously valuable tool for further opening tourism safely, and for events like weddings and concerts? Vaccine passports are seen as a key to further opening Hawaii’s tourism economy. People in Israel can sidestep restrictions at businesses like gyms by showing a government-issued “vaccination certificate,” in either paper or electronic form, available for those who have gotten two doses of a vaccine and waited a week.Īnd just last week, the European Union announced its program to create a vaccination passport to let residents fly between EU nations in time for summer vacations. The state of New York has used electronic COVID-19 “vaccine passports” to open New York Rangers games to fans at Madison Square Garden. ![]()
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