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Information Minister Melford Nicholas says an electronic passport system will be created as a proof of vaccination, to allow residents to travel abroad.<\/p>

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\u201cWe are going to capture that information and create an electronic passport for persons who are ultimately going to have to travel and would need to be able to present and represent that they have been vaccinated,\u201d Nicholas said during this morning\u2019s post Cabinet press conference.<\/p>\n

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\u201cApart from them having their own local certificate in print in their hands. The electronic passport portal will be available for other ports of entry to be able to examine and validate that all people have effectively been vaccinated\u201d.<\/p>

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Information Minister Melford Nicholas says an electronic passport system will be created as a proof of vaccination, to allow residents to travel abroad. \u201cWe are going to capture that information and create an electronic passport for persons who are ultimately going to have to travel and would need to be able to present and represent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nNICHOLAS: Electronic passport system will be created as a proof of vaccination - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NICHOLAS: Electronic passport system will be created as a proof of vaccination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Information Minister Melford Nicholas says an electronic passport system will be created as a proof of vaccination, to allow residents to travel abroad. \u201cWe are going to capture that information and create an electronic passport for persons who are ultimately going to have to travel and would need to be able to present and represent […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-26T14:39:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Melford.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1058\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"764\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"NICHOLAS: Electronic passport system will be created as a proof of vaccination\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-26T14:39:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-26T14:39:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/\"},\"wordCount\":121,\"commentCount\":18,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1058\/h:764\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Melford.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/nicholas-electronic-passport-system-will-be-created-as-a-proof-of-vaccination\/\",\"name\":\"NICHOLAS: Electronic passport system will be created as a proof of vaccination - 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