00:00Starting Monday, residents of England can utilize the National Health Service, NHS,
00:11app as a vaccine passport.
00:14These digital certificates will be accessible from May 17th, coinciding with the lifting
00:19of the ban on non-essential travel.
00:22For those without smartphones, a paper version can be requested by contacting the NHS Helpline
00:27at 119.
00:30The digital certificate will be available on the NHS app, which was initially designed
00:35for booking appointments and ordering repeat prescriptions, not the COVID-19 app used for
00:40testing and tracing.
00:43To download the app, users must be registered with a General Practitioner, GP, in England
00:48and be at least 13 years old.
00:51Initially, the app will only show the user's vaccination record, however, future updates
00:57will include COVID-19 test results.
01:01The government assures that vaccination status will be securely stored within the NHS app
01:05and accessible solely through the NHS login service.
01:10At first, these vaccine passports will be used exclusively for international travel.
01:15Nonetheless, the government has hinted that they might later be employed for domestic
01:20settings such as pubs.
01:23The Ada Lovelace Institute, an organization dedicated to the study of data ethics, has
01:28released a report outlining six criteria that governments must fulfill before implementing
01:33vaccine passports.
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