The European Commission has approved a proposal to extend the European Union Chinese coronavirus health pass until June 30th of 2023, but still maintains the measure is “exceptional.”
The announcement to extend the passport until June of 2023 was made this week by European Commission spokesman Christian Wigand, who stated that the pass was being extended as the EU was cautious of possible increases in the spread of the virus later this year.
The European Union coronavirus passport came into force on July 1st of 2021 and was limited to a year with the possibility of extensions and is meant to facilitate travel across the various member state of the political bloc, newspaper Il Tempo reports.
The extension of the EU passport comes despite many countries within the European Union starting to scrap coronavirus restrictions entirely, including their domestic health pass…