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Hawaii has announced a Covid vaccine passport program for inter-island travel. Rebecca Falconer notes for Axios that Hawaii is the second US state to launch a “vaccination verification” scheme after New York. She writes:
The American Civil Liberties Union has said if vaccine passports are solely digital it’d “increase inequality,” excluding people who don’t have phones. It wants them to be “primarily paper-based, decentralized, and protect privacy.”
Hawaii’s Democrat Governor David Ige said at a briefing Tuesday that Hawaiians could use paper records for the program and that the state was working with private firms that would be accessing people’s records to ensure privacy was protected.
Starting May 11, fully vaccinated travelers who received their vaccine in Hawaii may travel inter-county (Kauai, Maui, & Hawaii) without having to take a pre-travel test or quarantining for 10 days. People are fully vaccinated on the 15th day following their final vaccine dose. pic.twitter.com/bnsx6mW5SX
Here’s Justin McCurry in Tokyo with his latest dispatch from Japan:
Japan is poised to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo and two other regions amid a surge in coronavirus cases just three months before the start of the Olympic Games.
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