Africa: Are Digital Health Passports a Good Idea?

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Africa: Are Digital Health Passports a Good Idea?

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] The rollout of the first batches of COVID-19 vaccines in Britain and the United States has reignited a debate around the possible use of digital health passports to ease the lockdowns that are crippling the global economy.

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