[GTranslate]Herd immunity in Europe by mid-July and health passport ready in two to three months: this was announced by Thierry Breton, EU commissioner for the internal market and head of the vaccines task force.

“Now – said Breton speaking at” Le Grand Jury “on Rtl Le Figaro in France – we have the capacity to produce and supply our European citizens with the 360 ​​million doses of the vaccine expected at the end of the quarter and the 420 million doses planned for the end of July, necessary to start talking about this collective immunity and to reach it “. The commissioner, therefore, confirmed his prediction, according to which the citizens of the European Union will have reached collective immunity for Covid-19 by 14 July: on Saturday the commissioner had made it known that the increase in the industrial production of vaccines anti-Covid in the EU “is going well” and “we do not need another vaccine: we are the only continent to have four, which we also produce. We will soon have a fifth, I believe in June or the end of May”.

Breton then showed a prototype of the first European “health passport” (in the pic), adding that it will be available throughout the Union “in two to three months”. both in print and for smartphones. On the document, a QR code and the type of vaccine carried out. For those who have not yet or did not want to carry out the vaccine, the result of the last swab performed will be indicated.