“They’re not going to be used in the foreseeable future in the way that they were previously, for hospitality and all those sorts of things.”
Is “in the foreseeable future” similar to Ardern’s “Not while I am PM“?
“The new vaccine pass-type system will have to take into account whether people were eligible for three or four doses. Hipkins said there were no plans to extend the vaccine passes to diseases other than Covid-19.
Which means there are plans.
Remember this?
And Hipkins said the Government was also working on a self-service system where people could access flu, MMR, and other vaccine histories. […]
Hipkins said the new system could be useful for people who might want to verify vaccination status to a potential employer.
[…] Hipkins said he’d ask about what steps could be taken for people who wanted their data on the existing vaccine pass system to be removed.
“The Privacy Act continues to apply to all this information,” he said. “People will have control of their own data.”
NZ Herald
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