{"id":26859,"date":"2021-01-15T09:25:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T00:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/jan\/15\/immunity-passports-could-be-the-ticket-to-help-reopen-international-borders"},"modified":"2021-01-15T09:25:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T00:25:52","slug":"immunity-passports-could-be-the-ticket-to-help-reopen-international-borders-anthony-gardiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26859","title":{"rendered":"Immunity passports could be the ticket to help reopen international borders | Anthony Gardiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though questions remain that still need answering, there are encouraging signs that proof of immunity to Covid-19 could help people return to normality<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the world\u2019s biggest ever vaccination programme gets underway, so-called immunity passports are back in the headlines. A document verifying the holder\u2019s status as Covid-free could allow international borders as well as concerts and other events to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>So are immunity passports just the ticket, or do they remain a flight of fancy?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/jan\/15\/immunity-passports-could-be-the-ticket-to-help-reopen-international-borders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though questions remain that still need answering, there are encouraging signs that proof of immunity to Covid-19 could help people return to normalityCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs the world\u2019s biggest ever vaccination p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,914,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26863,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859\/revisions\/26863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}