Madrid’s Covid immunity cards plan faces backlash | Malay Mail

📆 7/29/2020 6:42 PM
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MADRID, July 29 — Health experts, citizens’ rights groups and lawmakers lined up today to criticise plans by Madrid authorities to give immunity passports to people who test positive for coronavirus antibodies. Dubbed ‘Covid cards’ by regional government leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso, who wants...

The country has been gripped by a surge in new infections with 13,116 diagnosed in the last seven days. — Reuters pic

“The key is letting people who are not infectious continue to live a normal life and focusing the precautions on the vulnerable,” Ayuso said on Tuesday. “We are asking for the card to be studied so we can identify who cannot infect or be infected right now.” The World Health Organisation has discouraged the use of immunity passports on those grounds, and a large Spanish study into immunity showed 14% of participants with antibodies had lost them when tested again three months later.

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