More than one million Europeans have received the new EU Covid-19 health certificate being rolled out to unlock travel within the bloc, the European Commission has said.
Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders announced the figure to the European Parliament ahead of a vote to enshrine the document in law in time for the continent's all-important summer tourism season.
It is expected to be passed by a big majority after agreement between MEPs and the European Union's 27 member states on details, with the vote result known early on Wednesday.
The certificate - showing the bearer's immunity to Covid-19 either through vaccination or previous infection, or their negative test status - is to be used for intra-EU travel from 1 July, removing the need