Negative travel advice in the May holidays too, a corona passport for the summer holidays
The caretaker government is likely to extend the negative travel advisory for trips abroad until mid-May. In the summer holidays travel abroad will be possible again, thanks to a digital green certificate, a ‘corona passport’.
The advisory was already extended to mid-April at the last press conference. After that, on 23 March, a special travel advisory for the May holidays was to follow.
That advice has already leaked today through De Telegraaf: the government is ruling out the May holidays abroad.
The extension follows a whole series of them. From mid-January to mid-March, then to the end of March and finally to mid-April. Now it is expected to be mid-May.
Earlier, caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte spoke of perspective; Hugo de Jonge talked about ‘the prospect of a fine summer’. Tomorrow there is another press conference about corona (COVID-19).
The digital green certificate (‘corona passport’)
Southern European sun destinations such as Greece, Malta and Portugal recently pressed for a kind of vaccination passport.
The European Commission avoids the term ‘vaccination passport’ in its published proposal. Instead the Commission opts for the wording digital green certificate.
The certificate is proposed ‘to facilitate safe free movement in the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic’.
- “With the digital green certificate a person will be able to prove that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, have a negative test result or have recovered from COVID-19”, the Commission says.
Travel within Europe
All in all, travel within Europe becomes possible again by means of the corona certificate. But beyond it?
“We hope, of course, that it can then be extended to other countries”, says ANVRdirector Frank Oostdam tells NU.nl. “We have to get rid of that orange world as quickly as we can.”
Not to Greece yet
Israel has had a system of green passes for some time. Which is why tourists from the Israeli ‘travel bubble’ are already welcome in Greece.
From May Greece opens to foreign tourists in general. Given the negative travel advisory from the Netherlands, Dutch travellers will still have to wait for a Greek sun holiday.
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