Lack of Recognition Spurred Diplomatic Uproar Legend: green – approved purple – unapproved (HPW/Svet Lustig Vijay). Only fifteen EU/EFTA nations have recognized Covishield, the India-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine as of 8 July, 2021. Īsked whether the EU might at sometime in the future consider a region-wide policy for Covishield, or the other 3 WHO-approved vaccines, the spokesperson declined to comment. In the case of “vaccination with a vaccine that does not correspond to one centrally authorised in the EU, each Member State has the option to recognise it,” E U spokesperson Stefan de Keersmaecker told Health Policy Watch, in remarks last week. Rather than a unified response, the EU COVID pass has thus triggered a cacophony of different policies, by country. They include: Finland, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Hungary, Spain, Sweden – as well as Iceland and Switzerland, according to a country-by-country analysis of the latest travel policies. La #Belgique a annoncé hier qu’elle reconnaît le Covishield (AstraZeneca) qui est distribué à travers l’initiative #COVAX et qui a exactement la même efficacité et les mêmes propriétés que le vaccin AstraZeneca qui est utilisé massivement dans l’UE.īut only 10 out of the 31 EU/EFTA countries have fully followed World Health Assembly recommendations, recognizing all eight vaccines that have been granted a WHO Emergency Use Listing, as valid for the entry of non-European visitors on “non-essential” visits, the Health Policy Watch analysis also found.
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Iceland and Switzerland, among the four members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) that align with EU policies, also are accepting Covishield vaccines for travel. Belgium also announced Wednesday that it would recognize the Covishield vaccine – good news for vaccine advocates in the Democratic Republic of Congo – which has been one of the most vaccine-hesitant countries to date. The 15 countries that have adoped more progressive policies include: Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
Nearly half of the 31 European nations using the European Union’s new digital COVID travel certificate have recognized the India-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Covishield, alongside its European-made counterpart, Vaxzevria, an analysis by Health Policy Watch has revealed.īut other major countries, including France, Poland, and Italy, seem to be holding out, authorizing only those vaccines recognized by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The European Medicines Agency (EMA) does not recognize Covishield – the India-produced AstraZeneca vaccine
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